Tehran 09 January_Iran has taken a swipe at the chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for his comments supporting the US assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, expressing regret that the military alliance has turned into a tool for justifying the West's moves to achieve political objectives.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)-Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said on Wednesday that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's comments on the Friday assassination of General Soleimani disregard the principles of international law.
“Justifying the US regime’s unfair assassination of General Soleimani is shutting eyes to the role of this great commander in the decisive and crucial fight against terrorists and destruction of Daesh and eliminating the threat of that savage terrorist group from the region and the areas beyond, as far as the European borders,” Mousavi added.
He said the NATO secretary general has mocked the world public opinion by justifying the US assassination of a high-ranking Iranian military official who had been invited by Iraq’s legitimate government.
“The performance of this military organization (NATO), whose influential member is a terrorist state on a global scale, namely the US regime, has resulted in no achievement in recent years but devastation, wars and insecurity for the people of the region and the world,” Mousavi noted.
The spokesman expressed regret that NATO has become a tool for justifying the measures by the United States and a number of its European allies to achieve their ominous political objectives in the region.