Iran rejects reports on Kuwaiti mediation for joining anti-ISIL coalition
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
Sun 21 Sep 2014 - 16:20
TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran rejected media reports that it has called on Kuwait to mediate for Iran's participation in the US-led so-called international coalition against the terrorist group of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
'Iran will abide by its duty to fight terrorism whether inside the coalition or outside of it,' Kuwaiti Annahar daily quoted Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Alireza Enayati as saying.
He also noted that fighting terrorism is the responsibility of regional states, not trans-regional ones. 'Moreover, regional countries hold the required facilities and capabilities to fight terrorism.'
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has already described as "absurd, hollow and biased" remarks made by US officials regarding the formation of the US-led so-called international coalition to battle the ISIL terrorist group.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called the US-led coalition against the ISIL terrorists "ridiculous".
The ISIL terrorists control large parts of Syria's east and north. ISIL also sent its Takfiri militants into Iraq in June, seizing large swathes of land straddling the border between Syria and Iraq.
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