AYATOLLAH Ali Khamenei has called on Muslims to fight the “blind and savage terrorism” fuelled by US and Britain as he blamed both countries for deadly the bombing of an Iranian mosque.
“In our region… the blind and savage terrorism is born out of the evil policies of the United States, Britain and their state and non-state mercenaries,” he said in a statement marking the seventh day of mourning for victims of the bombings of a Shi’ite mosque in southeastern Iran.
“All Muslims are required to combat and confront this evil and sinister offspring which is the epitome of corruption on earth and of waging war against God.”
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up last week at a Shi’ite mosque in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing 28 people and wounding hundreds.
Khamenei said this “bloody incident” was carried out by the “devious, bigoted Wahabis with the support and plotting of foreign spy organisations”, adding the Zahedan bombings were aimed at dividing Iranian Muslims.
“The Shi’ite and Sunni thinkers in all Islamic and Arab countries should define the wicked intentions of the enemies which is to instigate sectarian terrorism for all and prevent them (Muslim nations) from the great danger of religious unrest,” Khamenei said.
He said Iran was the “target of the spy services of the US and Zionist regimes, and Britain” who wanted to “push it into religious unrest and into a Shi’ite-Sunni conflict”.
“But the Islamic republic will not allow the agents of global arrogance to incite division among Muslim brothers.”
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