Turkish official tells Tehran regime to shut up and show some shame over Irans part in Assads genocide #Turkey, 18-10-2014: A Turkish foreign ministry spokesman denounced Iranian regime condemnations of Ankara on Friday, saying, “Iran should remain silent out of shame over its support for Damascus which is the true terrorism,” according to the Anatolia News Agency. Foreign ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgiç was responding to remarks by Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, in which the senior Iranian regime official accused Turkey of pursuing a “neo-Ottoman” regional policy and claimed that Turkey was “impeding aid into the town of Kobani.” Bilgiç dismissed the “baseless” allegations, adding that Turkey “is not obliged to attain permission from anyone when taking measures against threats to its national security in light of international law.” Speaking to the New York-based Anatolian News Agency, the senior Turkish official said, “Iranian authorities have linked the issue of providing aid with obtaining permission from Damascus,” a reference to the Assad regime, adding that Turkey “has extended a helping hand to Syrians in order to put an end to the humanitarian tragedy without feeling the need to take permission from the illegitimate Assad regime.” Bilgiç further noted that the government in Ankara had informed the Iranian Embassy of this policy, to the dismay of the Tehran regime, scornfully dismissing “unfounded” statements by Iranian officials. The already rocky relationship between Turkey and Iran over Syria has further soured over the Tehran regime’s allegations and its central role in the ongoing catastrophic situation there, with the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister stating last week that “The United States has already warned us and our friend Turkey which disagree over the Syrian crisis that the Syrian people themselves decide the question of the survival or departure of the regime.” This comes after repeated statements by Iranian regime officials that without their continuing support Assad’s regime would have fallen within months. Iran had expressed concern in recent days over the Turkish parliament’s decision to allow the Turkish army to enter the theatre of military operations in Syria and Iraq Observers have noted that the Iranian charges against Turkey of seeking to revive the Ottoman empire come in the context of the Tehran regime’s justification for its ongoing imperial expansionist project in Arab nations, which bears a strong similarity to Iran’s previous Safawi empire which competed with the Ottomans for regional influence for several centuries. One of the Iranian regime officials promoting this expansionist plan , Hojat al-Islam Ali Saeedi, the Ayatollah Khamenei’s representative in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Thursday that Iran now has strategic control of a wide swathe of the Arab region, from Iran to Bahrain and Iraq to Yemen and Lebanon, extending to the beaches of the Mediterranean. In a speech delivered to a meeting of IRGC officials in the city of Qom quoted by the Tehran regime’s Fars news agency, Saeedi asserted that “Iran should maintain its strategic control of all these areas with all its force.” From: Radio Sawt Beirut International
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:53:07 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015