Roots of terrorism are all the same: FM spokesman

EghtesadOnline: The origins of Iran’s Mirjaveh and UK’s Manchester terrorist attacks are the same and should be rooted out, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi emphasized.

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23 May 2017

Ghasemi in a statement on Tuesday strongly condemned the attack by a suicide bomber which killed 22 people and injured 59 at a concert in Manchester, UK, on Monday night.

According to ISNA, he also voiced his deepest sympathies to the families of victims.

“We believe that the roots and ideological origins of such terrorist attacks as the one at Iran’s Mirjaveh or the one in England’s Manchester are the same and it is imperative for all countries which have fallen victim to the extremist and terrorist acts and ideologies to unite for a serious, targeted and sincere fight against Takfiri terrorism,” he said in the statement.

“One of the consequences of forming convenient and formal coalitions and pointing the finger at the wrong perpetrators and sponsors of terrorism and extremism is the cancerous spread of this scourge all across the world. Terrorism will not be eradicated unless through firm resolve and by creating a comprehensive mechanism void of double standards,” Ghasemi went on to say.