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Mon, 05/16/2011 - 08:54
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Iran Blames West for Deteriorating Security Conditions in Afghanistan
TEHRAN, May 16 (FNA)- A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official took the western forces responsible for the soaring hike in insecurities in Afghanistan, and called for their immediate withdrawal from the war-torn country.
"The western coalition, which entered Afghanistan with the goal of establishing security and uprooting terrorism, failed in attaining this declared goal, and now 9 years later we are rather witnessing exacerbation of insecurities, spread of drug trafficking, massacre of the civilians and actually an increase in the war victims in Afghanistan," Head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Afghanistan Staff Mohsen Pak-Ayeen said on Sunday.
Pak-Ayeen further said that the 9-year-long record of the US and its allies in Afghanistan displays that the western coalition is not at all thinking of the Afghan people and is just seeking its own interests.
"Historical evidence shows that the US seeks trans-regional goals through its continued presence in Afghanistan and does not care for the interests of the Afghan nation," he said.
All regional countries, specially Iran, have always asked for a regional approach to solve the problems in Afghanistan, and called on the Kabul government to pave the way for the withdrawal of alien forces from the country.
In relevant remarks earlier, former Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki took Washington responsible for the spread of extremism in Afghanistan, reminding that nine years of US occupation has not resolved, and rather worsened the country's problems.
"The wrong policies implemented in Afghanistan have entailed vast negative outcomes, the costs of which are paid by the regional countries and people," Mottaki said in May.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has also underlined the need for an immediate dismantlement of foreign security firms and military pullout from his country.
Karzai says that foreign security firms have only boosted insecurities in his country.
The US has dismissed Karzai's demand saying that security firms are working in Afghanistan under the US mandate and based on contracts with Washington.
"The western coalition, which entered Afghanistan with the goal of establishing security and uprooting terrorism, failed in attaining this declared goal, and now 9 years later we are rather witnessing exacerbation of insecurities, spread of drug trafficking, massacre of the civilians and actually an increase in the war victims in Afghanistan," Head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Afghanistan Staff Mohsen Pak-Ayeen said on Sunday.
Pak-Ayeen further said that the 9-year-long record of the US and its allies in Afghanistan displays that the western coalition is not at all thinking of the Afghan people and is just seeking its own interests.
"Historical evidence shows that the US seeks trans-regional goals through its continued presence in Afghanistan and does not care for the interests of the Afghan nation," he said.
All regional countries, specially Iran, have always asked for a regional approach to solve the problems in Afghanistan, and called on the Kabul government to pave the way for the withdrawal of alien forces from the country.
In relevant remarks earlier, former Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki took Washington responsible for the spread of extremism in Afghanistan, reminding that nine years of US occupation has not resolved, and rather worsened the country's problems.
"The wrong policies implemented in Afghanistan have entailed vast negative outcomes, the costs of which are paid by the regional countries and people," Mottaki said in May.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has also underlined the need for an immediate dismantlement of foreign security firms and military pullout from his country.
Karzai says that foreign security firms have only boosted insecurities in his country.
The US has dismissed Karzai's demand saying that security firms are working in Afghanistan under the US mandate and based on contracts with Washington.
