TEHRAN: President Hassan Rouhani Friday said it was completely wrong to think that a government can be overthrown by propping up terrorists.
If a government thinks that it can topple another government in the region and increase its [own] influence and power by supporting terrorists, it is 100 percent wrong, President Rouhani said in an address to the 27th International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran on Friday.
Syria has been gripped by a deadly conflict since 2011. According to reports, the Western powers and their regional allies – especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey – are supporting the militants operating inside Syria.
Rouhani said the enemies of Islam and Muslims have always pursued two evil goals: to create and to deepen rifts among Muslims.
Big and Western powers who are after their own interests in the region and seek to get their claws on the resources of Muslim countries, particularly in the oil and gas sectors, have always followed two ominous goals, namely to deepen divisions and to spread Islamophobia in the public opinion of the world, the Iranian president stated.
Rouhani warned that the enemies intend to justify their military presence and political and cultural dominance over the region and make occupiers, aggressors and Zionists overcome our region.
Referring to the foiled US bid to launch war against Syria, Rouhani said, the enemies of Islam sought to wage a new war in the region and intended to win the public opinions backing for new occupation, war and bloodshed in a bid to support the Israeli regime.
The Iranian government held close contacts and joined hands with countries opposing a new war in the region and managed to ward off a fresh conflict, the president underlined.
In cooperation with regional, extra-regional and certain powers, Iran managed to carry out such a big task. If Russia and Syria had not cooperated, this objective could not have been achieved, the Iranian president said.
Rouhani stressed the importance of improving dialog and interaction in the Muslim world, particularly in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain and Libya.
The Iranian chief executive also pointed to the recent nuclear deal between Tehran and six major world powers in Geneva.
Today, it is clear to the world that the Islamic Republic of Iran has not sought nuclear arms and weapons of mass destruction and will never do so in the future and that this nation and country have been a victim of weapons of mass destruction over the past years, Rouhani stated.
The 27th International Islamic Unity Conference opened in Tehran on Friday, bringing together local and international officials, intellectuals and scholars.
Participants at the three-day event are scheduled to discuss a whole range of issues including Muslim unity and the ongoing challenges in the Muslim world.
Meanwhile s senior Iranian cleric addressing the Friday prayer congregation in Tehran said Takfiri groups were the agents of arrogant powers.
Today, the Muslim world faces the enmity of the global arrogance, Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi said, calling on Muslims to neutralize attempts by enemies to cause division among them.
The enemies of Islam are using all tactics and methods to annihilate the divine religion and Muslims must be vigilant against divisionism War and bloodshed as well as cultural and media war waged by mischievous anti-Islam powers today, said Seddiqi.
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