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Raeisi: Discrimination in fighting terrorism amounts to giving terrorists a green light
Addressing the 78th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Raeisi said the use of terrorism as a foreign policy tool by certain Western governments undermines regional anti-terrorism efforts.
Operating and exploiting some Western security services from the base of extremist groups, especially the deliberate movement of foreign fighters across various geographical areas also fuels these concerns, he said.
Some European countries need to answer why, despite claiming to combat terrorism, they have become safe havens for a terrorist group responsible for the deaths of over 17,000 Iranian citizens on the streets, referring to the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO). Discrimination in the fight against terrorism means giving a green light to terrorists.
Global mericanization failed
“The project to Americanize the world has failed,” Raeisi told the session in New York.
“Thanks to the Islamic Revolution, the Iranian nation prides itself on playing the biggest role in unmasking imperialists in the East and the West,” said the president, according to Press TV.
“The world is irreversibly transitioning into a new order. The Western domination equation does not work for the world anymore, and the old liberal order that used to serve the interests of imperialists and insatiable capitalists has been brushed aside,” he said.
Iran’s foreign policies
Elsewhere in his remarks, the president noted that Iran had opened up a new chapter of mutually beneficial relations with its neighbors.
“The Islamic Republic’s good neighborly policy is a benevolent policy for the region. We firmly clasp any hand that is extended in friendship,” Raeisi said.
The Islamic Republic supports maximal intra-regional and inter-regional economic and political convergence, and is interested in interaction with the entire world, on the basis of justice, he stated.
Desecration of Holy Qur’an
Meanwhile, the president condemned the desecration earlier this year of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden and Denmark.
“What defines humanity and elevates human values better than God Almighty’s word?”
“The Qur’anic teachings for human communities shall never burn, while the flames of insult and distortion shall be no match for the truth,” he said.
Iran against division of world into new ‘East-West’
Now that the world’s independent countries are moving towards further cooperation and convergence, Raeisi said, “We are witnessing endeavors on the part of some powers towards kindling the flames of conflict across various regions.”
Maintaining a Cold War mentality, these powers are after dividing the international community into its former blocs, he said.
“This measure is reactionary and does disservice to nations’ security and welfare. The Islamic Republic firmly believes that no new East-West dichotomy should be allowed to take shape [across the world].”
Victory against foreign plots
Raeisi hailed that last year, the Iranian nation managed to overcome “the biggest media offensive and psychological warfare in history.”
He was referring to the incessant media and political campaign that followed the unfortunate death in police custody of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini.
The president said certain Western countries and their intelligence services had committed a “miscalculation” by underestimating the Iranian nation’s strength.
‘Israel cannot be a partner to peace’
The Iranian president considered the Israeli regime to be the world’s last entity “based on apartheid and racism, which has been founded on the basis of war, occupation, terrorism, and violation of peoples’ rights.” Such an entity “cannot be a partner to peace,” he asserted.
“Has not the time come for putting an end to 75 years of occupation of the Palestinian land and oppression of its people and massacre of its women and children, and for the Palestinian nation’s rights to be recognized?”
Ukraine war
Raeisi reasserted Iran’s opposition to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
“We do not consider warfare in Europe to be in the interest of any European party,” he said.
Iran welcomes any initiative that is aimed at ending the conflict and initiation of the political process, he said, and voiced the Islamic Republic’s readiness to play a constructive role towards the cessation of hostilities.