Tehran Hosts Int’l Conf on Security in West Asia…Hatami Says Era of American Order, West’s Hegemony over

The Iranian capital, Tehran, hosted on Monday an international seminar on defense and security in West Asia amid challenges facing the strategic region.

The Seminar of Peace, Stability and Sustainable Security in Light of Defense Cooperation kicked off in Tehran on Monday with an inaugural speech delivered by Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani.

During the day-long event, political, defense and security officials from Asian and European countries expressed their viewpoints about regional security, terrorism, extremism and the adverse consequences of foreign interference in the internal affairs of countries in the region.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the era of American order and Western hegemony has reached its end and time has come to usher in the post-West age in West Asia.

“The Islamic Revolution (in Iran) and the resistance in Syria, Iraq and Yemen show the reality that the West is not the center of regional developments anymore, and the compulsory US exit from Syria indicates the failure of their (the US) strategies in the region,” Hatami said in an address to the International Conference on Defense and Security in West Asia in Tehran on Monday.
Elsewhere in his address, Hatami said the West’s greed played a leading role in triggering the ongoing developments in regional countries.

Unrest and war in West Asia have emanated from the failed ideology of Western countries, which created unrest and chaos in the region for their own interests, he added.

  “West Asia is facing a sensitive era and peace and stability are being restored to this region due to the resistance of [regional] nations,” the Iranian defense chief pointed out.

Hatami also touched on the US withdrawal from the landmark nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, including the United States, saying that Washington’s move once again showed the real face of America more than ever before for everybody.

The decision also proved that the Americans would resort to every means to harm the independence of countries, he added.

 “Those who have refused to fulfill their commitments [as per the JCPOA] have no right to speak about negotiations and making any comment in this regard is ridiculous,” Hatami said.

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