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Iran: Rouhani slams ‘worn out, ineffective’ Arab League

November 22, 2017 at 9:15 am

President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech during a vote of confidence session held for 12th term ministers at the Iranian parliament in Tehran, Iran on 15 August, 2017 [Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday slammed the Arab League as old, worn out, exhausted and ineffective.

Criticising Sunday’s meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, Rouhani said: “At a time when the region’s peoples have achieved a great success by uprooting Daesh, the foreign ministers of an organisation that is old, worn out, exhausted and ineffective named the Arab League meet and all their concern is to express regret because the Yemeni people have fired a missile against Riyadh in response to the Saudi daily crimes and bombing against Yemen.”

Rouhani denied that the missile was Iranian and wondered about “the role of the Arab League when the Iraqi people were suffering from Daesh and when the Yemeni people were bombed, and when the Palestinian people are subjected to injustice”.

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During their meeting on Sunday, the Arab foreign ministers condemned “Iranian interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries”.

The ministers called upon the Arab group in New York to contact President of the UN Security Council to clarify Iran’s violations of UN Security Council resolution 2216 by supplying weapons to militias in Yemen and to consider the launching of an Iranian-made ballistic missile from Yemen towards Riyadh as an aggression by Iran and a threat to national and international security and peace.