We Should Not Rest Until Defeat of Terror Ideology, Says Zarif

The countries should not give up fighting terrorism until the defeat of the ideology behind terror, says Iran’s Foreign Minister.

‘We should not and will not rest until those behind terror in Istanbul, Dhaka, and now Baghdad, and their ideology are defeated,’ Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a Twitter post on Sunday.

The comments by Zarif came today, as the world is plagued by terrorist attacks in Turkey, Bangladesh and Iraq as well as suspected terrorist explosions in New York and Paris.

While there are still no reports of the possible tolls or injuries in Paris and New York explosions, the terror attack in Iraqi capital Baghdad caused many deaths and injuries on Sunday.

A suicide car bombing claimed by the Daesh terrorists ripped through a busy Baghdad shopping district on Sunday, killing hundreds of people in the deadliest attack this year in Iraq’s capital.

In a separate terrorist incident also claimed by Daesh (ISIS), 20 hostages were reportedly killed while in a café in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Saturday.

Daesh puppet of Iran’s regional rivals, says Sajad Abedi

On the other hand, a National Defense and Security analyst says that Daesh would be mostly playing the role of a puppet and proxy for Iran’s regional rivals, which through inciting sectarian and religious motivations, could pose challenges to Iran’s western borders.

Sajad Abedi in an article appeared in the Monday edition of the Tehran-based English newspaper, Iran Daily wrote that during the years that have passed since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the country’s national security considerations have undergone various changes.

These changes have taken place in the light of the continuation and pursuit of certain large-scale characteristics of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s establishment.

The country’s security considerations can be divided into three discourses: The expansion-based discourse, the maintenance-based discourse, and the growth-based discourse. Each of these discourses includes four basic variables, namely, “goals and principles of national security”, “national power”, “threats to and vulnerabilities of national security”, and finally “national security policies”.

The Islamic Awakening, its root causes and the speed of its growth were so sudden and rapid that most analysts and observers were taken by surprise and shock. The fact that how self-immolation of a vendor in Tunisia led to the rise and growth of democracy-seeking movements in the Middle East and caused domino-like collapse of governments in North Africa and none of the prominent analysts and futurology experts in the world could take the slightest guess about its emergence, is an issue that needs separate discussion and calls for revision in analytical methods in the face of such political phenomena.

On the other hand, the emergence of radical groups, in addition to the rapid growth of a group like Daesh, which was just a name along other radical groups like Al-Qaeda up to a couple of years ago, and by its seizure of vast swathes of territory in western Iraq and eastern Syria totally changed the regional playground.

Of course, there is no doubt that the development could not have taken place without coordination with security agencies in some regional countries and the world.

IRNA

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