Tactical use of terror attacks strategic mistake: Iran’s Larijani
While offering condolences over the recent terror attacks in Saudi Arabia, Iran’s parliament speaker warned against the tactical manipulation of such incidents.
“We have on multiple occasions warned the countries in the region that the tactical use of terrorism is a strategic mistake,” said Ali Larijani (seen below) while addressing the Iranian parliament on Tuesday.
He further stressed that such policies will only create other problems in the region in the future.
Larijnai also expressed regret that the terrorist attacks were carried out next to the Prophet's Mosque in Saudi Arabia.
Condemning the attacks, he noted that much more attention must be paid to terrorist activities in the region.
On Monday, the Saudi Arabian cites of Medina, Qatif, and Jeddah were targeted in a series of attacks. Several security guards were killed when a terrorist detonated his explosives near the security headquarters of the Prophet's Mosque in the western city of Medina.
The blast happened immediately after two bomb blasts near a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia’s eastern city of Qatif. Earlier in the day, a bomb went off close to the United States consulate in the city of Jeddah, in western Saudi Arabia.
Since late 2014, Saudi Arabia has been witnessing a series of bombings and shootings claimed by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and mostly targeting the country’s Shia Muslims in eastern part of the kingdom.
In January 2016, a bomber targeted a mosque in Ahsa, killing four people.
Last October, an armed terrorist opened fire on Shia Muslims commemorating Ashura, the martyrdom anniversary of the third Shia Imam, Imam Hussein (PBUH), in the eastern Qatif region, killing five before he was shot dead by the police.
Last June, four Shia Muslims were killed while trying to prevent a bomber from entering al-Anoud mosque in Dammam city in eastern Saudi Arabia and close to Qatif.
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