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June 12th, 2016 
Awake Goy TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif rapped Saudi Arabia’s warmongering policies against the regional states, and said Tehran’s power and peace-seeking nature creates panic in Riyadh.
“Saudi Arabia is a country which has attempted to commit crimes in Yemen and faced a scandal in the past few days and it is really shameful that the UN has shown such an approach (removing Riyadh’s name from the blacklist of violators of children’s rights after its massacre of Yemeni children) and we have been witnessing this disgrace for years but it was concealed behind Iranophobia,” Zarif said, addressing the Iranian legislators in an open session of the parliament in Tehran on Sunday.
“Saudi Arabia is a government which hasn’t changed, and the attempts made by the regime today are due to the worry and horror that it feels from the Islamic Republic’s powerful presence as a peace-seeking and calm-seeking power in the region but we believe that this concern is in vain,” he added.
Zarif called on Saudi Arabia to stop imposing its will on the regional nations, avoid massacring the Yemeni people and halt its support for the terrorists and extremists, who will backfire on Riyadh in the future, if it wants its relations resumed with Iran.
Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran on January 3 following demonstrations held in front of its embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad by angry protesters censuring the Al Saud family for the execution of prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in Riyadh on January 2.
Nimr’s execution caused international outrage and sparked anti-Saudi demonstrations in many other countries.
Riyadh has been attempting to rock the boat in relations between Iran and other world states and has spared no efforts to pressure Tehran.
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) claimed in April that Mahan Air was banned due to alleged violations of local safety rules. The GACA claimed in a statement that several violations related to airline safety had been committed by Mahan Air.
Immediately after the announcement, Director of Civil Aviation Organization Reza Jafarzadeh said Iranian airlines had never tried to land or make any request to fly in the Saudi airspace.
In a statement at the time, Jafarzadeh said Saudi authorities should explain why they claim they have withdrawn licenses given to Mahan Air to land in the Persian Gulf kingdom or fly in its airspace over ‘safety’ claims.
“No Iranian airline, including Mahan Air, has ever asked to land in Saudi Arabia or fly in its airspace. Iranian airlines have stopped their flight services to Saudi Arabia altogether. It just doesn’t make any sense for the Saudis to question the safety of Iranian jet airliners,” he added.
This is while trade between Iran and Saudi Arabia has mostly been small and each year only Iranian pilgrims travel to the kingdom for the Hajj pilgrimage.
Also in April, Ground Force Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said Saudi Arabia is masterminding terrorist attacks on the Islamic Republic by training and funding terrorist groups along the borders.
Speaking to reporters, Pakpour said Iran has arrested terrorists that have confessed to their affiliation to Saudi Arabia and some other Persian Gulf Arab states.
Pakpour said Riyadh is striving hard to make Iran insecure, and added, “Right now, countries like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are engaged in organizing and equipping these groups but the reason why no terrorist act is committed is due to our preparedness.”
By Fars News Agency
Source Article from http://theiranproject.com/blog/2016/06/12/zarif-s-arabia-fearing-peace-seeking-powerful-iran/
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