TEHRAN (ISNA)- A Malaysian news website republished a letter written by Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei to the western youth which condemned the West�s �double standards� on fighting terrorism.

�Anyone who has benefited from affection and humanity is affected and disturbed by witnessing these scenes � whether it occurs in France or in Palestine or Iraq or Lebanon or Syria,� he wrote in the letter, translated into English and French.

�It is correct that today terrorism is our common worry,� he said, while condemning the �contradictory policies� of the United States in �creating, nurturing and arming al-Qaeda, the Taliban and their inauspicious successors�.

�The military invasions of the Islamic world in recent years � with countless victims � are another example of the contradictory logic of the West,� the news website cited Ayatollah Khamenei�s letter.

�The pain that the Islamic world has suffered in these years from the hypocrisy and duplicity of the invaders is not less than the pain from the material damage,� he said.

So long as �double standards dominate Western policies� and �terrorism... is divided into �good� and �bad� types� and �governmental interests are given precedence over human values and ethics, the roots of violence should not be searched for in other places�.

By ISNA