Iran rejects ‘hasty’ remarks by Arab League's new chief
Iran has dismissed “hasty and unconstructive” remarks by the new Secretary General of the Arab League (AL), Ahmed Aboul Gheit, urging him to avoid playing the blame game over ongoing issues in the Muslim world and the Middle East region.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi on Monday urged Aboul Gheit to further study the Arab League’s performance in the past years and refrain from projection with respect to the existing problems in the Muslim world and across the region.
“While the Arab League, in accordance with its Charter, must help settle crises among its members through peaceful means, it has supported the military offensive of an Arab country against another Arab country and approved aggression and fratricide,” the Iranian spokesperson added.
He emphasized that repeating “baseless stances will make no change in the realities on the ground in the region.”
Qasemi called on Muslim nations to focus their attention on Zionist occupiers and Takfiri-terrorist groups as the common threats against the Muslim world.
In an interview with the Egyptian newspaper, al-Ahram, on Sunday, Aboul Gheit leveled unfounded allegations against Iran and claimed that Tehran is interfering in the internal affairs of Arab countries, including Bahrain and Yemen.
Aboul Gheit officially began his term as Secretary General of the 22-member Cairo-based bloc on Sunday. The 73-year-old Egyptian politician faces an uphill battle as the new Arab League secretary general with regard to the five-year-old war in Syria, militancy in Libya, a rising threat from Takfiri terrorists, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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