Alwaght- Iranian officials have censured the presenceof Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s former spy chief, at an annual meeting of the MKO terrorist group in Paris on Saturday.
A commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said that efforts by Saudi Arabia and foreign media to revive the profile of MKO terrorist group are doomed to failure.
The IRGC spokesman, Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif, said on Sunday that the unanimity and convergence of Al Saud and MKO in a rally in the French capital of Paris showed the Saudi regime’s complicity in the group’s terrorist crimes against the Iranian nation.
He added that the presence of former Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal, in the Paris meeting showed the long-lasting bond between the MKO and the Saudi regime in their crimes against the Islamic Revolution and the Iranian nation.
“It is clear to world opinion that the Al Saud regime is the axis of support for the terrorist movement in the region and beyond it," the IRGC commander said.
He added that the MKO, ISIS, Taliban and tens of other terrorist groups, which are scattered across the Muslim world and the globe, are committing the most heinous crimes against humanity under the leadership and support of the US, the Israeli regime and reactionary regimes in the region, including through extensive financial aid by the Al Saud.
Sharif emphasized that the dark criminal record of the MKO and the support accorded by the US and the Western and Arab allies of the White House and the Israeli regime to the MKO terrorists in their killing of nearly 17,000 Iranian people and officials will never be forgotten and they always deserve the harshest punishment.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, an advisor to Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, said on Sunday that there is no doubt about the Saudi security bodies’ relations with the MKO.
Financial supports for terrorism are on the agenda of Riyadh, he said.
“Riyadh’s strategic mistake in using terrorism in regional developments will cause us irreparable harms in the region,” Amir-Abdollahian remarked.
The veteran Iranian diplomat added that Saudi Arabia should change its “military and security approach” in the region.
He urged the Saudi government to stop supporting terrorism and play “constructive” role in the region.
Saudi Arabia’s former spy chief has attended an annual meeting of a terrorist group despised by Iran in move that implies the Riyadh regime is adopting a more confrontational approach against the Islamic Republic.
