Fars News Agency
Monday 11 Aug 2008
Iran

Iran Blasts US for Sparking Extremism in Region

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the
emergence of extremism is the brainchild of the US policies in the
Middle East.

"Today, extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan has turned into an
irresolvable dilemma even for those who helped develop the ideology,"
Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted by press tv as saying in a meeting
with Hedayat Oroujev, the Chairman of the State Religious Affairs
of Azerbaijan.

Mottaki expressed Tehran’s readiness to help settle Baku-Yerevan
differences.

"Iran’s foreign policy is based on peaceful coexistence and Tehran is
prepared to act as a mediator to resolve disputes between Azerbaijan
and Armenia," said Mottaki.

Oroujev, for his part, said the activities of hardliners incur
damages to Islam adding that the aliens fan extremism both openly
and in covert operations.

Azerbaijan and Armenia went at loggerheads over the strategic
Nagorno-Karabakh region. The disputes between the two states broke
out in 1988, when the Armenian majority in Nagorno-Karabakh appealed
to Moscow to help them join Armenia, but in 1991 rejected unification
with Armenia and proclaimed total independence in 1992.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress