Rouhani Calls for Collective Efforts to Fight Terrorism

Rasa - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on the Muslim states to do their best to help uproot terrorism and extremism in the region.

News ID: 430714

Date: 01 July 2017 - 23:58

RNA - "By continuing the ongoing approach in fighting terrorism, return of peace and stability to the Middle East is quite possible," President Rouhani said in a message to his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Massoum on Friday.

The Iranian president reiterated that liberating the oppressed people of the region from the nightmare of war and murder is quite possible.

"The positive security developments in Iraq and victories over terrorism and extremism are the result of Iraqi people, military forces' efforts and the neighboring countries’ assistance in fight for uprooting the brutal group and its resources.

Iraqi forces captured on Thursday the wrecked historic mosque of Mosul in which the ISIL terrorist group proclaimed its self-styled 'caliphate' three years ago.

Taking the Grand al-Nuri Mosque gives a symbolic victory to the Iraqi forces who have been battling for more than eight months to capture Mosul, the northern city that served as ISIL's de-facto capital in Iraq.

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