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U.S., Britain promoting terrorism in the region: Iranian FM
TEHRAN, March 9 (MNA) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the United States and Britain are promoting terrorism in the region.
“I accuse the United States, Britain, and their forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan of promoting terrorism in the region,” he said in an address at the seventeenth International Conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus in Tehran on Monday.
The two-day conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus was organized by the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Institute for Political and International Studies.
Tajik Energy Minister Golshir Ali as well as representatives from the embassies of Turkey, Denmark, Jordan, Venezuela, Pakistan, Georgia, Japan, and Switzerland attended the conference.
Mottaki stated that there are “hidden hands” trying to promote terrorism under the pretext of the campaign against terrorism.
The suspect attacks of September 11, 2001 provided the U.S. a pretext to attack Afghanistan and Iraq “to campaign against terrorism and drug trafficking, and establish security,” although terrorism greatly increased after the U.S. invasions, he noted.
Commenting on the arrest of Jundullah terrorist group leader Abdolmalek Rigi, the foreign minister stated that Jundullah has killed or injured over 400 people in Iran.
He added that Rigi visited a U.S. military base in Afghanistan just before his arrest, and U.S. officials must offer an explanation.
The rhetoric and the actions of U.S. officials do not match, since they talk of a campaign against terrorism and then establish relations with a terrorist group, Mottaki pointed out.
The Iranian foreign minister said that U.S. officials should present their definition of terrorism because they chant slogans about a campaign against terrorism but then turn a blind eye to human rights violations.
He stated that the foreign military bases in the region were not established to promote stability and security but are actually centers for interference in the internal affairs of regional states.
Rigi was arrested on February 23 at Bandar Abbas airport. He had been on a Kyrgyzstan Airlines flight from the United Arab Emirates to Kyrgyzstan that was forced to land at the airport in the Iranian port on the Persian Gulf.
In his confession, Rigi said that the intelligence services of Britain, the U.S., and certain other countries facilitated his group’s terrorist activities in Iran.
The Iranian foreign minister also said that Tehran plans to host an international conference on disarmament in the near future.
Mottaki expressed hope that more attention would be paid to the issue after the conference.
“I accuse the United States, Britain, and their forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan of promoting terrorism in the region,” he said in an address at the seventeenth International Conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus in Tehran on Monday.
The two-day conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus was organized by the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Institute for Political and International Studies.
Tajik Energy Minister Golshir Ali as well as representatives from the embassies of Turkey, Denmark, Jordan, Venezuela, Pakistan, Georgia, Japan, and Switzerland attended the conference.
Mottaki stated that there are “hidden hands” trying to promote terrorism under the pretext of the campaign against terrorism.
The suspect attacks of September 11, 2001 provided the U.S. a pretext to attack Afghanistan and Iraq “to campaign against terrorism and drug trafficking, and establish security,” although terrorism greatly increased after the U.S. invasions, he noted.
Commenting on the arrest of Jundullah terrorist group leader Abdolmalek Rigi, the foreign minister stated that Jundullah has killed or injured over 400 people in Iran.
He added that Rigi visited a U.S. military base in Afghanistan just before his arrest, and U.S. officials must offer an explanation.
The rhetoric and the actions of U.S. officials do not match, since they talk of a campaign against terrorism and then establish relations with a terrorist group, Mottaki pointed out.
The Iranian foreign minister said that U.S. officials should present their definition of terrorism because they chant slogans about a campaign against terrorism but then turn a blind eye to human rights violations.
He stated that the foreign military bases in the region were not established to promote stability and security but are actually centers for interference in the internal affairs of regional states.
Rigi was arrested on February 23 at Bandar Abbas airport. He had been on a Kyrgyzstan Airlines flight from the United Arab Emirates to Kyrgyzstan that was forced to land at the airport in the Iranian port on the Persian Gulf.
In his confession, Rigi said that the intelligence services of Britain, the U.S., and certain other countries facilitated his group’s terrorist activities in Iran.
The Iranian foreign minister also said that Tehran plans to host an international conference on disarmament in the near future.
Mottaki expressed hope that more attention would be paid to the issue after the conference.
