29 Mar 2024
Sunday 14 September 2014 - 15:21
Story Code : 116565

Police chief: Enemies creating terrorist groups to find foothold in region

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmayeel Ahmadi Moqaddam underlined that the enemies of the regional states are creating and sponsoring the terrorist groups to deploy their forces and find a foothold in the region.


"Today, the enemies have created, strengthened and trained terrorist groups and tomorrow will trample the countries' independence and attack them under the pretext of the (presence of the) same terrorists," Ahmadi Moqaddam said, addressing police cadets in Tehran on Sunday.

He also said that the enemies also defend the most dictatorial governments under the name of defending freedom and democracy and then launch propaganda against Iran which is a democratic country and accuse it of limiting freedom.

"Today, the Islamic Republic is a bright system which relies on the Islamic and humane values and is accepted in the world," Ahmadi Moqaddam said.

His remarks came after NATO heads of state convened in the Welsh city of Newport on 4-5 September and US Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told foreign and defense ministers participating in the NATO summit that the US was forming a broad international coalition against the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Ministers from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Italy, Poland and Denmark met in Wales to hammer out a strategy for battling ISIL, but the policy was questioned by many regional officials and political leaders.

In relevant remarks on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham questioned the goal of the so-called international coalition formed to fight the ISIL terrorist group, and lashed out at Washington and its allies for pursuing a double-standard policy towards campaign against terrorism in various countries.

The so-called international coalition to fight the ISIL group, which came into existence following a NATO summit in Wales and is taking shape, is shrouded in serious ambiguities and there are severe misgivings about its determination to sincerely fight the root causes of terrorism, Afkham said.

Some of the countries in the coalition are among financial and military supporters of terrorists in Iraq and Syria and some others have reneged on their international duties in the hope of (seeing) their desired political changes in Iraq and Syria, she added.

She noted that the double standards adopted by these countries in dealing with extremism have contributed to the spread of terrorism across the world.

Afkham also rejected as baseless any report that Iran and the US are in talks on fighting the Takfiri militants.

In the negotiations with the US, no issue but the issue of (Irans) nuclear energy has been discussed, and the US side has merely talked about its positions regarding the ISIL group, the Iranian official said.

Also on Wednesday, Iran's former Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi blasted the US for supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist group, and said that Washington's recent airstrikes on the ISIL positions in Iraq were no more than a political showoff.

"The recent moves by the US are theatrical," Brigadier General Vahidi, who is now the head of the Iranian Armed Forces' Strategic Studies Center, told reporters.

He said the ISIL was just a protg of the US and Israel, stating that the terrorist group has staged operations only in those places favored by the Israeli regime. "The US hues and cries about the formation of an anti-ISIL coalition is because they now see the terrorist group is getting out of their control."

By Fars News Agency

 

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