The secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has cautioned that any military strike against Iran will be kind of insanity and would engulf the whole region in flames

The secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has cautioned that any military strike against Iran will be kind of insanity and would engulf the whole region in flames.

“I have repeatedly warned Western officials that any aggression or strike against Iran will be a kind of insanity and open hell’s gate to the region,” Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said in a meeting with Hamid Reza Dehqani, Iran’s permanent ambassador to the OIC on Wednesday.

He condemned the Western sanctions against Iran over its nuclear energy program and said they could not affect the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s OIC envoy, for his part, praised the organization’s stance on the challenges facing the Islamic world. Dehqani, however, called for a more active role of the OIC in settling issues and encouraging more cooperation among the member states.

According to a Wednesday report by US daily The New York Times, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said President Barack Obama has requested from the Pentagon military options against the Syrian government.

Dempsey declared in a US Senate committee hearing in Washington that the Department of Defense was preparing military alternatives with regards to the existing situation in Syria for Obama’s review.

Dempsey added that potential measures considered by the American military ranged from “aerial surveillance of the Syrian military, the establishment of a no-fly zone, naval monitoring and humanitarian airlifts.”

His comments came as conflicting reports from the US administration have been emerging lately. Few days earlier, veteran US Senator and the previous Republican presidential nominee John McCain urged Washington to conduct airstrikes against Syria in collaboration with allied Arab regimes as well as other NATO countries.

However, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who was also attending the committee hearing, criticized McCain’s suggestions and said the Obama administration recognized that there are “limitations of military force, especially with US boots on the ground.”