Iran has accused the United States of stoking tension in the Middle East region by resorting to "Iranophobia" following President Joe Biden's regional tour, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani dismissed claims and accusations against Iran made during Biden's maiden regional trip. He said joint statements made during […]
Posts Tagged ‘iranophobia’
TRUMP’S TRAVELS: “Stirring up Iranophobia to Boost Arms Sales” while Pandering to Global Terrorism
Niraj Srivastava21st Century Wire President Trump embarked on his first visit abroad on May 19, travelling first to Saudi Arabia (May 20-21), and after that to Israel and the West Bank (May 22-23).The visits were very important, both regarding what was said, and what was left unsaid. In Riyadh, Trump held talks with King Salman […]
US stirring up ‘Iranophobia’ to boost arms sales to Arab nations – Tehran
“Once again, by his repetitive and baseless claims about Iran, the American president… tried to encourage the countries of the [Middle East] region to purchase more arms by spreading Iranophobia,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said a day after Trump sealed a massive arms deal with Iran’s arch-rival, Saudi Arabia, worth $110 billion. Trump […]
Trump Visits Riyadh: Democracy, human rights out of; arms deal, Iranophobia top on agenda
Alwaght-Once anti-Muslim rhetoric permeating his election time campaign, Donald Trump as his first foreign trip is set to visit Saudi Arabia, a country that extremist branch of Islam Wahhabism is its official religion, in a bid to finalize $100 billion Arms deal with the Kingdom. Abandoning some of the harsh anti-Muslim rhetoric of his presidential […]
Qasemi: Ill-wishers masterminding Iranophobia in region
IRNA – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Monday that Iranophobia is now being masterminded by a number of specific countries in the Middle East region. Speaking to reporters in his weekly press briefing, he said that the recent allegations made at meetings of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) are not new and […]
The Trouble with Tillerson: Unbounded Iranophobia
Iranian Diplomacy | Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: In recent days, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has dropped all diplomatic niceties by adopting an unreconstructed, misleading, and certainly counter-productive language against Iran, wrapped around the Trump administration’s certificate of Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal. Thus, in both his letter to US Congress as well as his […]
British PM Theresa May brings Islamophobia to 10 Downing
Alwaght- In an anti-climax following the election of the first Muslim mayor of London, Muslim in Britain have been shocked by the selection of an extremist Islamophobe as Prime Minister. In early May this year, Muslims in Britain celebrated as Muslim of Pakistani origin, Sadiq Khan, was elected the mayor of London with some terming […]