Tuesday, November 24, 2015, Azar 3, 1394, Safar 12, 1437
A senior Iranian diplomat has described the potential establishment of “terrorist regimes” as the most dire threat facing the world today.
The acts of Daesh confirm that the great and main threat” in today’s world is the transformation of terrorist organizations into terrorist regimes,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Sunday.
He made the remarks while addressing the annual meeting of the World Policy Conference (WPC) in the Swiss city of Montreux on Sunday.
“It is regrettable that over the past years, the national and democratic uprisings of the people of the region have been derailed by terrorists,” he said, adding that due to certain ,regional governments’ poor leadership and imprecise understanding of their respective countries’ internal developments “weapons and terror and not ballot boxes are determining the fate of the nations.”
Takfiri terrorism, which threatens world security and targets all governments, nations and religions, is “the product of the interventionist and irresponsible behavior of certain regional and extra-regional players in the Middle East and North Africa region,” he said.
The Iranian official described Daesh as an “artificial group,” which has nothing to do with any divine religions.
The Iranian deputy foreign minister further ruled out military approaches for the settlement of regional crises, including those in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Libya, saying that the conflicts should be resolved only through diplomatic channels.