Iranian Cleric Warns against West’s Plot to Disintegrate Regional Nations
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi cautioned against a plot hatched by the Zionist Regime of Israel and certain Western countries to disintegrate the Middle Eastern states.
“Zionists, Americans and Britons are seeking to split up Yemen, Syria and Iraq,” Seddiqi said, addressing a large congregation of Iranian people here in Tehran on Friday.
They want to break up the countries to replace them by puppet regimes, which obey their orders, the cleric added.
Iraq has been the scene of clashes between military forces and the terrorists from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group since the foreign-backed militants attacked the Arab country from Syria in summer 2014.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Seddiqi expressed deep sorrow over the Yemeni crisis, saying that the issue of the war-stricken country is among “heartrending” issues.
He denounced the international community’s silence about the Saudi regime’s crimes in Yemen, saying that the United Nations Security Council is just watching how civilians are targeted by heavy attacks by an “oppressor” regime.
Yemen has been under airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition for five months.
On March 26, Riyadh and some of its Arab allies launched a military campaign against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudis.
More than 4000 people, many of them children and women, have been killed in the Saudi-led aggression against the Arab country so far.
