UK PM remarks prove Britain’s divisive policy: Boroujerdi

Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Alaeddin Boroujerdi says the recent comments made by British Prime Minister Theresa May against the Islamic Republic prove that London is pursuing a divisive agenda.

Boroujerdi told IRIB on Thursday that the British prime minister’s remarks among “subservient regional countries are not compatible with the reality” of the Islamic Republic and “indicate Britain’s divisive policy.”

Speaking at the annual summit of [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council in the Bahraini capital of Manama on Wednesday in a televised address, May said Britain would help the GCC states “push back” against what she claimed to be Iran’s “aggressive regional actions.”

The British premier also said that her country wanted to “make a more permanent and more enduring commitment to the long-term security” of the Persian Gulf and would invest almost four billion dollars in defense spending in the region over the next 10 years.

Boroujerdi further urged Britain to refrain from taking any measure which would once again prompt the Iranian legislative branch to scale down the level of diplomatic ties with London.

“If Britain seeks to persist with such a policy vis-à-vis  the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Parliament will once again move to downgrade relations,” the senior Iranian legislator pointed out.

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