Marzieh Afkham who was reacting to a blast hitting Iran’s embassy in Libya, condemned the terrorist act; “the authentic information received from Libya indicates that the hand-made explosive device was detonated before the home of Iranian ambassador in capital city of Tripoli which inflicted minor damage,” Afkham added.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran closely watches the development in Libya, and opposes any foreign intervention in the North African country; we believe that political consensus and national dialogue, if realized and successful in forming a national unity government, would cut short the way to terrorist and extremist circles in Libya,” she emphasized.
Afkham denounced training and arming of conflicting groups famously described by the west as ‘moderate Syrian insurgency’ as stark violation of international law and mere repetition of past strategic errors which ended in emergence of ISIL and Al-Nusra Front and other dangerous extremist factions; “in a time when the threat of terrorism has embraced the region and the world, the gross insistence by the US and its allies on a misguided approach will bring nothing but more devastation of the region and death of more innocent civilians; a policy of silence by the UN about the US measures contradicted its actions in Aleppo to suspend the hostilities,” she asserted.
Afkham recommended US and its allies to respect the UN Security Council’s recent 2199 resolution and other resolutions as a simple and possible way to cut the provision of arms and logistics to terrorist fighters in Syria.
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