Muslims targeted by US, UK, Zionist terrorism: Leader

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says recent bombings in Muslim countries are the fruit of terrorism which US, UK and Israeli intelligence agencies have nurtured in order to consign Palestine into oblivion.

“In Baghdad, several hundred families saw the loss of their loved ones at the hands of criminals and terrorists and those who want to promote a fabricated and fake Islam among people at the order of their masters.

“Also in Istanbul, in Bangladesh and elsewhere in some other countries, people fasting during the month of Ramadan came under terrorist attacks.

“This is the result of terrorism nurtured by security services of America, the Zionist regime and England,” the Leader said during Eid al-Fitr prayers in Tehran Wednesday.

The Leader was referring to car bombings which took the lives of at least 250 people in Baghdad Sunday. The attacks came after at least 45 people were killed in terrorist attacks at Istanbul airport.

Ayatollah Khamenei said Muslim countries are the target of a scheme to turn certain political differences into civil wars.

“The enemies are trying to consign the Palestinian issue into oblivion. They want to have the Islamic world preoccupied with internal problems so that the Palestinian issue is forgotten and the Zionist regime is given a chance to pursue its wicked goals.”

Ayatollah Khamenei predicted that the wave of terrorism wreaking havoc in Muslim countries would backfire on its masterminds.

"They will be harmed by the things they have created in the Islamic world just as they are gradually seeing the fallout. But this is their sin and their crime which will not be forgotten," the Leader said.

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