Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that the department for
European affairs of the ministry summoned the three diplomats separately at the
evening time on Saturday to declare Tehran’s strong protest to the role their
countries might have played to support elements who carried out the terror
attacks in Ahvaz earlier in the day that led to the killing of some 25 people.
The al-Ahvaziya terror group, whose recruits are believed to be scattered in
several European countries, including in the Netherlands and in Denmark, claimed
responsibility for the attack in Ahvaz.
The Western and Saudi media have refrained from terming the deadly attack in the
Iranian city of Ahvaz a terrorist act despite the large number of civilian
casualties in the incident.
The terror outfit, which is backed by Saudi Arabia, has a record of carrying out
sabotage acts in Iran’s Khuzestan province, which encompasses Ahvaz and some
other Arab-dominated towns.
Terrorists recruited, trained, armed & paid by a foreign regime have attacked
Ahvaz. Children and journos among casualties. Iran holds regional terror
sponsors and their US masters accountable for such attacks. Iran will respond
swiftly and decisively in defense of Iranian lives.
Qassemi said Iran expected the two European countries to extradite the "criminal
perpetrators” of the terrorist act in Ahvaz.
"It was reiterated to the ambassadors of the Netherlands and Denmark that the
Islamic Republic of Iran had earlier warned about the residence of these
individuals in these countries and has called for their arrest and prosecution,”
said Qassemi in a statement, adding that the ambassadors of the two countries
declared that their governments were ready to share any information with regards
to the terrorists and their records.
The official said that Iranian authorities had also passed their strong note of
protest to the chargé d'affaires of the British embassy in Tehran about an
interview aired by a Britain-based TV channel after the attack in Ahvaz in which
the spokesman of the al-Ahvaziya had condoned the terrorist act.
Qassemi said the British diplomat condemned the attack and said that he would
accordingly relay Iran’s message of protest to the authorities in London.
Source: Press TV