TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Rome Jahanbakhsh Mozaffari stressed that the Middle-East and the Caucasus regions have turned into a haven for the terrorists due to the western countries' strategic mistakes.
"The West's strategic mistakes about issues in the Middle-East region, Central Asia and the Caucasus have turned this part of the world into a haven for the terrorists and extremists," Mozaffari said in an interview with Italy's Agence la Stampa on Monday.
Warning that terrorism is threatening the regional and world states, he said, "Their only goal is destroying civilization, spreading Islamophobia and paving the ground for foreign meddling in the region again."


Mozaffari called for finding the root causes of terrorism and creation of a united front against the ominous phenomenon.


In relevant remarks in September, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blamed the "short-sighted policies" of the Western countries and their regional allies as the main cause of the spread of the ominous phenomena of terrorism in the region.


"These countries are suffering from the destructive consequences of these policies and if they do apply serious changes to their previous policies the scope of these threats will further expand," Zarif said in a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Ioanis Kasoulidis in New York at the time.


The Iranian foreign minister underlined that the short-sighted policies of the western countries and their regional allies had resulted in the strengthening of terrorist groups in the Middle East.


The Cypriot foreign minister, for his part, called Iran's views on the threat of terrorism and confronting it as accurate, and said, "The present situation in the region is worrying."


He noted that certain countries that were trying to change the governments of other countries by resorting to different means and interfering in their internal affairs have supported the terrorist groups and spread terrorism and insecurity in the region.


By Fars News Agency