Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamamd Javad Zarif said the Takfiri dogma propagated by the Saudi Arabia poses the main threat to security and stability in the region.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamamd Javad Zarif said the Takfiri dogma propagated by the Saudi Arabia poses the main threat to security and stability in the region.
“The main threat to the region is the Takfiri and extremist ideologies, whose intellectual and financial origin and resources emanate from Saudi Arabia,” Zarif said in a meeting with former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Tehran on Monday.
Zarif added that in his letter to foreign ministers of different countries, he had outlined Saudi Arabia’s measures over the past two years to spread Iranophobia.
He emphasized that Iran has so far out of prudence put up with all the negative Saudi measures, including the sexual abuse of two teenage Iranian pilgrims by Saudi officers at Jeddah airport in April and the deadly stampede in Mina in September.
“We consider Saudi Arabia’s approaches to create tensions as propaganda stunts here and there and regard them as an immature and passive conduct,” the Iranian minister pointed out.
Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been strained in recent days following the Saudi execution of top opposition cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, which was announced on January 2.
Riyadh severed diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic on January 3 following attacks carried out by some people on its diplomatic premises in the Iranian cities of Mashhad and Tehran during protests against the execution.
For his part, the former German chancellor said his country envisages good prospects for relations with Iran after the implementation of a nuclear agreement reached between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group of countries, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in July 2015.
Schroeder added that Germany along with European countries hope that they will manage to benefit from Iran’s capacities to solve regional crises after the closure of Tehran’s nuclear dossier.
