Zarif: Iran Has Intelligence Saudi Promoting Terrorists near Borders
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran obtained intelligence showing that Saudi Arabia is actively propping up terrorist groups along vast areas on the Iranian borders.
Speaking at the opening of the Oslo Forum in Norway, Zarif referred to recent remarks by Saudi officials that foreshadowed the recent terrorist attacks in the Iranian capital, Tehran, calling those remarks a "direct threat and very dangerous provocation" by Riyadh.
Zarif further made clear that Iran is "alert," adding, "We have intelligence that Saudi Arabia is actively engaged in promoting terrorist groups" operating near both the eastern and western borders of Iran.
Last month, the Saudi defense minister, Mohammed bin Salman, said in vague remarks that Saudi Arabia would work to move "the battle" to Iran. Then, on June 6, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Iran had to be "punished" for what he called "its interference in the region."
Just hours later, early in the morning of July 7, twin terrorist attacks struck the Iranian capital. A total of 17 people lost their lives and nearly 50 others sustained injuries in the terrorist attacks. Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the Takfiri ‘ISIS/ISIL' group], which is closely associated with Saudi Arabia, claimed responsibility for both attacks.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Zarif said the United States under President Donald Trump was turning a blind eye to Saudi Arabia's role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, which killed some 3,000 people, and other attacks elsewhere in the West.
On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists - 15 of them Saudi Arabian nationals - engaged in a multi-pronged attack on US soil, including by hijacking passenger planes and crashing them into what were then the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
In Oslo, Zarif said in figurative remarks that Trump was seeking to change the nationality of the 15 Saudi Arabian assailants or every other bomber who has attacked the US or Western countries over the past 20 years postmortem.
The US was "trying to change... history," he said.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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