Alwaght- Iran has strongly condemned a Thursday night terrorist attack in France’s Nice, where a truck loaded with weapons and hand grenades plowed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day and killing at least 84 people.
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi released a statement on Friday, expressing deep regret for the incident. “As we have mentioned several times, terrorism is an ominous phenomenon that will be eradicated only with international cooperation and consensus,” he stressed.
Qassemi underlined that any “negligence or double standards” on battling terrorism is condemned and will be doomed to failure.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement also condemned ‘the terrorist crime which targeted the innocent civilians in the French city the night before and claimed scores of victims.’
In a statement, Hezbollah considered that the crime is a new a chapter of the worldwide terror which does not distinguish between races, ages and religions, but aims to strike the entire humanity.
Hezbollah pointed out that the terrorist attacks witnessed in the Western countries are not different from those which hit the West Asia (Middle East).
This lays on the entire world the responsibility for uprooting terrorism and eradicating the channels which support it financially and politically and justify it under the pretext of false religious beliefs in order to carry out the schemes of some Western and Arab countries, the statement added.
Leading Muslim scholars and Arab leaders on Friday also condemned a truck attack that killed at least 84 revelers in the Mediterranean resort of Nice on France's national holiday.
Leading Islamic centre of learning in Egypt, Al-Azhar, said the "vile terrorist attack" contradicted Islam and called for "uniting efforts to defeat terrorism and rid the world of its evil."
Prominent Egyptian Muslim cleric Shawki Allam condemned the assailant as an "extremist."
"People who commit such ugly crimes are corrupt of the earth, and follow in the footsteps of Satan... and are cursed in this life and in the hereafter."
Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit denounced the "craven terrorist attack," his spokesman said.
Tunisia said that the attacker, who police said held joint French-Tunisian citizenship, had committed an act of "extreme cowardice" and expressed solidarity with France against the "scourge of terrorism."
Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas also condemned the Bastille Day attack in Nice. Hamas offered its condolences to the casualties’ families, reiterating the group’s firm denunciation of such acts of "terrorism and extremism". “We know how it feels like to be stung by terrorism. The Palestinians have been suffering from Israeli terrorism for dozens of years,” the statement read.
At least 84 people were killed when, a French-Tunisian criminal well known to the police, rammed a truck through a crowd of thousands celebrating Bastille Day on the French Riviera on Thursday evening. Scores more were wounded, some of them critically with the toll expected to rise.
