Some regional states fomenting sedition: Iran’s Velayati

Ali Akbar Velayati, an International Adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, said on Thursday that certain countries are making every attempt to fan the flames of sedition in the region.

According to Tasnim news agency, addressing the International Union of Resistance Scholars conference underway in Beirut, Lebanon, Velayati stressed that instead of fighting the common enemies like Takfiri groups, some regional states are trying to wage proxy wars which will only undermine the Islamic Ummah (community).

He added that Takfiri groups are distorting the image of Islam and also preparing the ground to ignite the flame of sedition in the region.

Velayati, who is also the president of the Center for Strategic Research of Iran’s Expediency Council, further slammed the international community for not only remaining silent on terrorists’ crimes, but throwing support behind such groups.

Terrorism, which has posed a great threat to the global peace, will backfire and haunt those countries that are supporting it, he stressed.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Velayati described a recent move by some Arab countries to blacklist Lebanon’s Hezbollah Resistance Movement as a “sinister phenomenon” in favor of the Zionist regime of Israel and one that seeks to undermine resistance movements.

The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) officially added Hezbollah and all affiliated groups to its so-called list of “terrorist” organizations on March 2. The council comprises Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait.

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