TEHRAN -- Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has warned European countries against allowing their territories to be used as a launch pad for plots against the Islamic Republic.
“The territories of the European countries should not serve as a source of plots and threats against the Iranian nation’s interests,” he told Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo over phone.
Raisi said Iran is willing to maintain constructive relations with the rest of the world, including Europe, and enhance them.
He warned Europe against falling for false information fed by anti-Iran currents.
“If a government chooses the path of confrontation under the influence of the false and misleading information of terrorist and mercenary currents, it stands to lose,” Raisi said.
Raisi also expressed concern about some European countries’ support for Islamophobic activities.
Several European countries stand accused of enabling “state-sponsored” Islamophobia by contributing to a systematic suppression of their Muslim communities and tolerating sacrilegious insults against Islam.
“The Islamic Republic is inclined to resolve problems through recourse to a cooperative approach provided that the other side is open to such an approach,” Raisi said.
The Belgian official, for his part, laid emphasis on the importance of developing relations between the two sides given their 130-year-old history of diplomatic relations.
Belgium, he said, always chooses the path of dialogue towards reinforcement of its relations with Iran, and is willing to resolve various issues through recourse to understanding and cooperation.