Larijani: Aliens are determined to divide Muslims

Istanbul, Jan 20, IRNA – Terrorism and discord among various Islamic sects have expanded to such vast dimensions that involvement of aliens' hands in them is quite obvious, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said here Tuesday on sidelines of Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Union (IIPU). 'This conference has routine annual programs and is convened to organize the inter-parliamentary affairs of the Islamic countries, as well as surveying the major issues with which the Muslim World is entangled with today and will be faced with in the future,' he said in a meeting with the press right after his arrival in Istanbul. 'The IIPU deals with the major challenges of the Muslim World and explores ways to achieve sustainable peace and security,' he said. 'Many of the challenges with which the Muslim World is entangled are imported and some of them are definitely due to the intrigues by the aliens,' added Larijani. The Iranian top parliamentarian reiterated that the general challenges of the Muslims -- terrorism and injuring the sentiments of the Muslims -- are designed and conspired outside the Muslim World. He stressed that the Islamic parliament speakers can, if they will sincerely share views, affect the decisionmaking in their countries. The IIPU was established in 1999 based on an initiative by Iran. It seeks to strengthen parliamentary cooperation among Islamic countries in order to deal with the challenges facing the Muslims worldwide.