Tehran, YJC. Gholam-Hossein Dehqani, Iranian envoy to the United Nations has said that the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan and the terrorist attacks have led to a criminal circle which does the most harm to civilians.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly and
addressing the situation in Afghanistan, Gholam-Hossein Dehqani, Iran’s Deputy
Permanent Representative to the UN, reiterated the importance of maintaining
security in Afghanistan and maintained that Iran’s policy toward this country
has always been in line with supporting ‘peace, stability, security and socio-economic
development for the government and nation of Afghanistan.
While it has been expressing grave concern over the
continuation and rise of violence in Afghanistan, "the Islamic Republic of Iran
strongly condemns all sorts of violence on innocent people and Afghanistan’s
infrastructures as carried out by Taliban, al-Qaeda, and the other extremist
groups which act the vicious crimes these days.”
"Unfortunately though, foreign troops remaining in the
country’s land and the terrorist attacks over the past few years have created a
vicious circle of which the terrible consequences have afflicted the Afghan
civilians,” he said, asserting that the terrorist and extremist groups are
currently using the presence of foreign troops as a pretext to carry out their
attacks on Afghanistan’s human and financial resources.
Dehghani urged the withdrawal of foreign troops from
Afghanistan as soon as possible and added, "Iran condemns any cooperation with
these terrorist groups which would aggravate them in conducting such heinous
acts.”