TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Majid Ansari underlined that the country's warnings before the outbreak of terrorist acts in the region proved Tehran's righteous views on terrorism to the world.


"It was an honor for Iran that last year before the world paid any attention to the ISIL (terrorist group), the Iranian President (Hassan Rouhani) raised a plan for international campaign against terrorism and violence," Ansari told FNA on Monday.

He said while the world powers didn’t pay attention to the plan, now the entire world states have come to realize that Iran's views were right, and the Islamic Republic president had correctly anticipated the ISIL's recent crimes in Iraq and Syria.

On December 18, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to approve Rouhani’s WAVE proposal, which calls on all nations across the globe to denounce violence and extremism. The Iranian president had made the proposal in his address to the UN Disarmament Conference in New York on September 25, 2013.

Under the UN resolution adopted in accordance with the WAVE proposal, the General Assembly would urge member states to take “appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace and to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character”.

Elsewhere, Ansari pointed to the US-led so-called anti-ISIL coalition, and voiced suspicion about its real intentions.

After the US-led coalition against the ISIL declared its creation, Iran lashed out at the western states for pursuing a double-standard policy towards campaign against terrorism in various countries.

In relevant remarks last month, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri questioned the US-led anti-ISIL coalition, and said Washington is still providing the terrorist group with different supports.

"Based on the intelligence, news and analyses we have, the foreign spy agencies, headed by the US, created, managed and supported the ISIL and regional terrorists logistically," Jazayeri said, addressing Basij (volunteer) forces in Tehran.

"Such cooperation still continues and the Americans seek to fool the public opinion under the pretext of confrontation with the terrorist group," he added.

Jazayeri said that the US has now changed its tactic by forming the so-called anti-ISIL coalition and is attempting to deploy in the region again.

By Fars News Agency

 

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