Tehran, April 19: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday accused Tehran’s arch-foe the United States of wanting to create tension between Iran and Arabs, adding that the attempt would fail.
“America is trying to sow discord among Shias and Sunnis … They want to create tension between Iran and Arabs … But their plan will fail,” the hardliner said at Iran’s annual Army Day parade, where the military displayed a range of home-built drones and missiles.
“America is not an honest friend and the record shows it has drawn swords against its own friends and those who have sacrificed themselves for America,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast live on State television.
“America has done it in order to save its interests. But they should know that they have no place among nations,” Ahmadinejad said.
He said Iran was a “close friend” of world nations and “with alertness of people and their politicians, the new plot by the world arrogance will not prevail,” and added that the “Zionist” leaders in the US would also fail in their attempt to save the “Zionist regime” in Israel.
Ahmadinejad’s outburst came a day after the Gulf Cooperation Council’s six member States, who are collectively ruled by Sunnis, called on the Iranian regime to stop its “interference” in the GCC.
–Agencies–