Zarif to Arrogant Saudi Arabia: Not to Leave Iraq Unless Iraq asks
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Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday that Tehran had no intention of leaving Iraq and criticized arrogant Saudi Arabia for accusing it of stoking sectarian violence.
"We will leave Iraq whenever Iraq asks us to. And we will help Iraq to confront terrorism, as long as Iraq wants us to," Mohammad Javad Zarif said at a press conference in Stockholm during a
European tour to attract investors.
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia accused Iran of sowing "sedition and division", and urged Tehran to "stop intervening" in the affairs of its neighbors.
But Zarif, bristled at the remarks by the Wahhabi kingdom's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir.
"It's an absurd statement, it's an arrogant statement. Nobody should arrogate themselves to talk on behalf of other countries," he said in English.
Without naming names, Zarif warned countries which consider groups such as Daesh and the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra Front as "leverages that can be used for political gains".
"That's the worst miscalculation anybody has made in our region," he said. "I believe the sooner Saudi Arabia comes to understand that Daesh is first and foremost a threat against them, then, anybody else, the sooner we are able to confront this total menace for all of us, not only in the region but in the world," Zarif added.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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