Stoking more crises in Middle East unwise: Zarif
Foreign Minister of the Islamic republic of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned of the consequences of stoking more crises in the Middle East, saying such a bid will only bring about more grief and misery.
“A more experienced person might think doubling down on bad bets by stoking further crises would be unwise,” Zarif said on his official Twitter account on Friday, Press TV reported.
He cited the foreign support for executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein; Taliban militants; the slain al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; and Daesh terrorists as instances of "doubling down on bad bets."
The top Iranian diplomat said Lebanon is also the latest in a string of countries in the region to be facing such a bid after Qatar and Yemen.
Zarif’s latest remarks came amid an escalating war of words between Tehran and Riyadh in nearly three decades after Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman on Tuesday alleged that Iran was involved in supplying weapons to the Yemen's Ansarullah Houthi fighters, which he said “is a direct military aggression” by Iran against Saudi Arabia.
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