TEHRAN -- The World
Assembly of Islamic Awakening has strongly condemned the recent cowardly crimes against Muslims in Afghanistan, warning that such terrorist acts aim to stoke tensions among ethnic and religious Afghan groups and spread Islamophobia.
“Certainly, such actions are planned to create tension and wage ethnic and religious wars, launch massacre and killings of Muslims, and as a result, portray an unrealistic image of Islam and spread Islamophobia,” the assembly said in a statement.
It added that Afghanistan’s acting Taliban government is responsible for providing security for all Muslims practicing religious duties and should be held accountable in this regard.
The recent terrorist attacks on mosques in Afghanistan are a desecration of the holy month of Ramadan and the continuation of the killing of innocent people, which all have been carried out by the U.S.-backed criminals and terrorists with the purpose of creating a crisis in the region, the body said.
“The recent terrorist act in Mazar-e-Sharif in fact completes ... a conspiracy and plan that seek to create division among the Muslim Ummah… and shows that such crimes know no boundaries,” the statement read.
It emphasized that the Muslim people of Afghanistan would soon give a proper response to such crimes, calling on all governments, nations, groups and parties in the Muslim world and the freedom-seekers of the world to maintain unity, coherence and solidarity in the face of the enemies’ plots.
“Behind these terrorist acts, which are clearly aimed at escalating violence and creating a civil war in Afghanistan, the evil hand of Western elements and intelligence services is evident, which have launched a new proxy war by mobilizing and organizing takfiri terrorist groups especially in the country’s north,” Nour News, affiliated to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, wrote on Saturday.
The outlet cited “reliable information” indicating that the recent terrorist operations in Afghanistan, along with non-stop efforts to stoke strife between the people of Iran and Afghanistan and the start of terrorist operations by Daesh with U.S. support are linked to a joint Washington-London strategy to trigger a new hybrid war with the aim of creating insecurity and instability in the region.
“The Anglo-American hypocrisy line, which sees its hands cut off from Afghanistan in the wake of the humiliating exit of U.S.