Tehran, YJC. The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a school in the Pakistan’s Peshawar, which killed 131 civilians, mostly young students.
In a message to Pakistan’s Army Chief General Raheel Sharif,
Iran’s Mohammad Ali Jafari expressed condolences with the Pakistani people and
government over "the martyrdom of the innocent Pakistani people”.
He asserted "It is clear that new terrorism has crossed
ethnic, national, religious, age and gender boundaries,” adding that the fact
proves that "violence and terrorism are the result of the policies adopted
by trans-regional hegemonic and arrogant superpowers, which seek their
interests and goals in the rift among Muslim people."
Jafari also called on the international community to
demonstrate "comprehensive and serious" acts in condemning terrorism
and confronting states which have created terrorism and sponsor crime against
humanity.
The IRGC commander asserted that Muslims’ pioneering role in
this regard will quench the plots created by the enemies of Islam to portray a
violent image of the holy religion.
The message by the IRGC commander followed one day after at 131
people, most of them students as young as 12, were shot dead and over 122
others wounded on Tuesday in a Taliban seizure of a school in Pakistan’s
Peshawar.