Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that Middle Eastern countries should solve their problems together without relying on external powers.
“We believe that if there is a problem in the region, it can be solved through dialogue,” Rouhani said in a speech at the opening of a port in the southeastern city of Chabahar, broadcast by state television.
“We neither need arms nor intervention of foreign powers. We can solve our problems ourselves through unity and dialogue.”
The Iranian president pointed out to recent victories against the ISIL Takfiri group, saying such achievements opened the way for the Middle East to move past its reputation for “war and conflict between Shiite and Sunni… and the presence and interventions of foreign powers”.
Rouhani meanwhile stressed that: “No country can claim to be the superior power in this region. Just as the superpowers couldn’t accomplish that either.”
Source: AFP
