Iran’s FM Holds Talks With Pakistani Leaders
ISLAMABAD (Dispatches) -- Iran’s foreign minister on Friday lashed out during a visit to Islamabad at Donald Trump, assailing the American president for his tweet this week warning Iran not to threaten the U.S. again or it would face its "official end.”
Muhammad Javad Zarif said "Iran will see the end of Trump, but he will never see the end of Iran.”
Zarif also chastised the Trump administration for designating last month Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group — the first such U.S. designation for an entire division of another government.
The Fars news agency quoted Zarif as saying that though Trump "accused the Iranian nation several times with this title (terrorist), he is the one that deserves it.”
The foreign minister also warned of anarchy in the Mideast if world powers do not unite to stop U.S. aggression.
"We are witnessing today how the U.S., with its bullying approach, is putting sanctions on Iran,” he said, adding that "regional states have to stand up against the sanctions for their own interests.”
Zarif met with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday. A brief statement from Khan’s office said only that bilateral issues were discussed during the meeting.
Iran and Pakistan share a troubled 900-kilometer-long border, or about 560 miles, and Tehran says that anti-Iranian militants have found safe havens in Pakistan’s border province of Baluchistan.
IRNA reported that Zarif came to Pakistan with a proposal to link Iran’s port of Chabahar on the Arabian Sea with Pakistan’s Gwadar port, mostly being developed by China as part of the multi-billion-dollar One Road project that will connect the Arabian Sea with China.
India has been Iran’s partner in developing Chabahar while Saudi Arabia has been in talks to develop an oil refinery facility at Pakistan’s Gwadar, though no agreements have been signed.
Muhammad Javad Zarif said "Iran will see the end of Trump, but he will never see the end of Iran.”
Zarif also chastised the Trump administration for designating last month Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group — the first such U.S. designation for an entire division of another government.
The Fars news agency quoted Zarif as saying that though Trump "accused the Iranian nation several times with this title (terrorist), he is the one that deserves it.”
The foreign minister also warned of anarchy in the Mideast if world powers do not unite to stop U.S. aggression.
"We are witnessing today how the U.S., with its bullying approach, is putting sanctions on Iran,” he said, adding that "regional states have to stand up against the sanctions for their own interests.”
Zarif met with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday. A brief statement from Khan’s office said only that bilateral issues were discussed during the meeting.
Iran and Pakistan share a troubled 900-kilometer-long border, or about 560 miles, and Tehran says that anti-Iranian militants have found safe havens in Pakistan’s border province of Baluchistan.
IRNA reported that Zarif came to Pakistan with a proposal to link Iran’s port of Chabahar on the Arabian Sea with Pakistan’s Gwadar port, mostly being developed by China as part of the multi-billion-dollar One Road project that will connect the Arabian Sea with China.
India has been Iran’s partner in developing Chabahar while Saudi Arabia has been in talks to develop an oil refinery facility at Pakistan’s Gwadar, though no agreements have been signed.