TEHRAN -- Iran’s deputy
foreign minister for political affairs on Sunday criticized certain regional Arab governments for normalizing their relations with the occupying regime of Israel, saying such moves will never help those countries feel secure.
“The history has proven that aggression and occupationism will never lead to order, stability and calm,” Ali Baqeri Kani said in a meeting with a group of Iranian army commanders here.
“We believe that not only the nature of the Zionist regime’s aggression and occupationism is destabilizing and cause of tension, but fomenting tension and disorder is in the very nature of Zionists,” he said.
“The interaction between some regional governments and the Zionist regime is similar to taking refuge in a wolf’s lair to protect oneself from the blissful spring rain,” the Iranian deputy foreign minister added.
He recalled that the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, had warned some regional Arab states against helping former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his imposed war against Iran, telling them that if Saddam had a chance, he would attack them as well, which he in fact did after failing in his war with Iran.
“Friendship with Zionists will lead to exactly the same fate,” Baqeri Kani said.
His remarks were made in reference to a number of Arab
countries in the West Asia region, which have embarked on normalizing their political and diplomatic relations with the Zionist regime.
Four Arab countries – the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco – have agreed to normalize relations with the occupying regime of Israel.
Spearheaded by the UAE, the move has elicited widespread condemnation from the Palestinians as well as Muslim nations and human rights advocates across the world.