Iranian officials: Western states responsible for terrorist attacks in London

by Mohammad Amin

On Sunday, June 4, after vicious attacks by Islamic extremists in London, Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei blamed Western countries for the attacks.

"Today, ISIS is driven from its birthplace in Iraq and Syria into other countries, going to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and even the Philippines, European countries and elsewhere. They began this fire and now it has set them ablaze,"

he said.

Tehran formally condemned the terrible May 22 bombing in Manchester. Yet the reactions of various senior Iranian officials portrayed a sense of satisfaction.

Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaii, secretary of the Expediency Council and former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), tweeted that the "[t]errorist explosion in Manchester is the result of Trump's sword dance with the chief of terrorists."

Text and a photo on Twitter immediately released by Iran's official news agency gave major political meaning to these statements:

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