Russia, Iran Condemn Al-Bouti’s Assassination

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The Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the assassination of scholar Dr. Mohamamd Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti and the students who were martyred along him, considering this criminal act as a crime "against religion and humanity."

In a statement issued on Friday, the Ministry said the struggle and martyrdom of "one of the great scholars and advocates of convergence of Islamic doctrines and Islamic resistance against Zionism" will contribute to erasing the scheme of the US and Zionist entity and their agents in the region.

The statement expressed the Iranian Foreign Ministry's condolences to the scholars of Islam and particularly the Levant Scholars Union, the Syrian people and the martyrs' families over the martyrdom of Dr. al-Bouti.

Similarly, Russia expressed condemnation of the assassination al-Bouti in a suicide terrorist bombing .

"We firmly condemn the terrorists' new heinous crime," Russia Today website quoted the Ministry as saying in a statement.
"There is no doubt about the forces that stand behind the killing of Muslim clergymen who depend on the principles of moderation, tolerance and patriotism," the statement added.

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Alexander Lukashevich, said "the extremists didn't forgive al-Bouti's call for peace and condemning terrorism and armed violence or the criticism he made against the extremists who hide behind the banner of Islam because of their ignorance of religion.

Source: News agencies, Edited by moqawama.org