Iran:

Israel Root Cause of Unrests, Terrorism in Region

Rasa - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi categorically rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent remarks against Tehran, and stressed that Israel is behind all unrests and problems in the region.

News ID: 435493

Date: 25 December 2017 - 22:07

RNA - "A major part of all problems, unrests and terrorism in the region is related to the Zionist regime," Qassemi told reporters in his weekly press conference in Tehran on Monday.

He downplayed allegations raised by Netanyahu that Iran is the root cause of clashes in the Middle-East, and said such lies are so big that everyone understands their nature and there is, hence, no need to pay such hollow words any attention.

"The Israeli leaders are repeatedly projecting the blame on others to justify their occupation and massacre of the innocent Palestinian people," Qassemi said.

In relevant remarks in November, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami described the US and Israel as the biggest and most dangerous advocates of terrorist groups in the region, and expressed regret that certain regional states have been fooled by them into destabilizing other countries.

"Unfortunately, certain regional and trans-regional states have not given up their destabilizing acts and have been entangled in the US and the Zionist regime's trap and are after disintegration of the regional states and turmoil after attacking Afghanistan and Iraq, creation of the ISIL in Iraq and Syria and the war in Yemen. Such situation is no good to the region and the Muslim world," General Hatami said in a meeting with Pakistani Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa in Tehran.

He described the US and the Zionist regime as the biggest and most dangerous supporters of terrorism in the region, and said, "Extremism is the result of the US policies and war on terrorism is just a pretext by the White House statesmen to gain control over the Islamic territories and their resources."

"The Islamic Republic of Iran uses all its power and capacities to maintain regional security and territorial integrity of all countries," General Hatami said.

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