Iran to continue assisting its neighbors: President Rouhani

President Hassan Rouhani has defended Tehran’s support for neighbors such as Iraq, saying the assistance will continue.

“We, as a neighboring country, will continue assisting those nations and governments, which have called for our help,” President Rouhani said in a briefing with journalists on Wednesday, Press TV reported.

The Iranian president made the remarks after a meeting with Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli-Larijani.

The Iranian president expressed hope that Iraq could soon regain stability and security as the fight against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists continues.

"We hope that the Iraqi nation would push the terrorists out of their country, and for Syria, as well, we hope that the people of that country would see days of higher security and stability not only in the month of Ramadan but also the rest of the year."

Elsewhere in his remarks, President Rouhani slammed terrorist activities in the region, censuring international organizations including the United Nations for their declining influence in settling global issues.

“When the UN secretary general and the UN itself budge in the face of pressure and financial threats from a country to remove the name of that country from the list of countries killing children, it shows that international organizations no longer have even the flawed position they used to have in the past,” President Rouhani said, referring to a recent statement by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who admitted that he removed Saudi Arabia from a blacklist of child killers in Yemen only 72 hours after the list was published.

The UN gave in to a Saudi demand to remove the kingdom from a blacklist of child rights violators, less than a week after it blamed Riyadh for the killing of hundreds of Yemeni children.

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