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Thursday 25 January 2018 - 22:33
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Zarif slams Saudi 'vision of light spin', US 'credit-grabbing' for Daesh defeat



Press TV - Iran's Foreign Minister MohammadJavad Zarif says the US and Saudi Arabia cannot alter the facts on the ground about their sponsorship ofDaesh and Iran's role in defeating the Takfiri terrorist group.

In aposton his Twitter accounton Thursday, Zarif reacted to latest remarks by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who accused Iran of backing sectarianism.

Speaking at a panel in theWorld Economic Forumin the Swiss town ofDavos on Wednesday, Jubeir claimed that Iran was promoting a "vision of darkness" in the region while the Saudi Arabia had a "vision of light."

"In the Middle East, we have two competing visions. Vision of light ... and we have a vision of darkness, and the vision of darkness is sectarianism, its trying to restore an empire that was destroyed thousands of years ago, its using sectarianism and terrorism in order to interfere in the affairs of other countries, he said.

In response, Zarif said that no "alternative facts" provided by Riyadh and Washington could diminish Iran's successful contribution to the Daesh defeat.


No amount of 'alternative facts' by Trump & Cos echo chamber, 'vision of light' spin by KSA, or credit-grabbing by the US for defeat of ISIS will change the facts that:
1. It was Iran who helped the people of Iraq & Syria defeat ISIS, and
2. It was the US and KSA who armed it.



Javad Zarif (@JZarif) January 25, 2018

Saudi Arabia is widely viewed as the homeland of radical Wahhabism, the same ideology influencing Takfiri outfitssuch as Daesh, which have beenwreaking havoc in the Middle Eastand beyond for years.The US has also been supporting different terrorist groups in the region.

On the contrary, Iran has been assisting Syria and Iraq in their counter-terrorism fights at the request of their respective governments.

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