TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Iran has said the London attacks were a "wake-up call” and urged Western states to go after ideological and financial sources of terrorism, in a thinly veiled reference to Saudi Arabia.
Three attackers drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing revelers nearby on Saturday night, killing at least seven people in what Britain said was the work of Daesh militants engaged in a "new trend” of terrorism.
"Repeated blind terror attacks around the world are a wake-up call for the world community,” the official Iranian news agency IRNA quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi as saying.
"To uproot terror, it is necessary that they (Western states) address the root causes as well as the main financial and ideological sources of extremism and violence, which are clear to everyone,” Qassemi was quoted as saying.
Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi ideology which has inspired such violent groups as Daesh and Al-Qaeda and its funding of militant groups is viewed behind a recent spate of deadly attacks in Europe.