Ahmadinejad Warns of Enemies’ Plots to Create Insecurity in Region

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned of the world powers’ plots to create insecurity and sectarian war in the region.

“The arrogant powers are seeking to create insecurity in the region and stir sectarian and religious strife and war among the nations which are making progress,” Ahmadinejad said, addressing a large number of people in the Northern city of Rasht on Wednesday.

He warned that the western powers and their allies plot to spark war in Eastern Asia, and said, “They want to prevent countries’ progress and plunder their wealth.”

“They want to kill people and Muslims with the help of petrol dollars and modern weapons in order to weaken us so much that they can dominate us again and settle their own problems,” Ahmadinejad said.

In relevant remarks in August 2012, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with Indonesian Vice-President Boediono in Tehran warned of the plots hatched by certain powers to stir religious and sectarian strife in Muslim nations.

During the meeting held on the sidelines of the 16th heads-of-state summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) here in Tehran at the time, the Supreme Leader cautioned against the dangerous attempts made to sow discord and stir clashes between different religious sects in the Muslim nations, specially between the Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and said, “These actions are carried out through the support of certain powers and by means of their hirelings, whose instances can be seen in Afghanistan and Pakistan now.”

“The Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were created with the support of the US allies in the region, while the US is bombing countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan under the pretext of fighting them,” said the Leader, and added, “But their main goal is hegemony over these countries.”

He further warned the Indonesian official to take precautions about such dangerous plots against Muslims in Indonesia, Egypt and Libya, and underlined the necessity of increased cooperation among Islamic states.

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