Collaborators with Trump, accomplices in US crimes: Shamkhani

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani says European countries collaborating with the United States' policies are accomplices in crimes committed by the US, the Israeli regime and reactionary states in the region.

"Any collaboration of some European countries with policies of [US President Donald] Trump's administration will have negative impacts on long-term relations with our country," Shamkhani said in a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in Tehran on Monday, Press TV reported.

It will also lead to "a negative view of these [European] countries in the public opinion of Iranian people and regional nations" regarding them "as parties to crimes committed by the US, Zionist regime and reactionary [states] in the region," Shamkhani added.

He warned that if the US succeeded to impose its will on Europeans with regard to Iran, it would also interfere in their relations with other countries.

The senior Iranian official urged the European Union to resist the US excessive demands in order to defend its own identity and independence.

It is possible to create a stable world without any violence and insecurity by refraining from abiding by the US and Israeli policies and adopting an independent stance with the purpose of serving the nations' common interests, Shamkhani said.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Shamkhani criticized some countries' baseless positions on Iran's regional policies, saying that Daesh terrorist group would have full control over Syria and Iraq in the absence of the Islamic Republic's practical measures against terrorism.

He slammed the British government's lack of severe action on media outlets supporting a terrorist group, which killed innocent people in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz in September, pointing out, "It is expected that the British government explicitly announce its stance on the necessity to counter terrorism and human rights violation."

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