Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday deplored lack of solid strategy to go ahead with campaign against terrorism and extremism.
He said in an article to Harvard scientific magazine that terrorism is a threat to the Middle East nations, and the entire world as well.
'Terrorists recognize no borders and have thus far caused grave humanitarian costs in Syria and Iraq, and their ominous shadow has spread all across the region.
They are claiming to be an international movement while they are responsible for destructive effects they have on security and geopolitical environment in the human community.
He said that the extremists perpetrated ethnic cleansing and mass murder of civilians in Iraq and Syria which have shocked the world nations, the terror attacks in Europe claimed by al-Qaeda and Buku Haram is responsible for brutal massacres in Africa, the terrorist attack in the National Museum of Tunisia, suicidal attack against civilians in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, beheading of 21 Coptic Egyptian Christians in Libya, and shocking murder of 147 university students in Kenya over the past several months.
'Such bloody events reveal the growing dimensions of aggressive extremism more than ever before.'
The ominous phenomenon emerged for the first time after occupation of Afghanistan by the former Soviet Union when the al-Qaeda and the Taliban were born.
He said that al-Qaeda emerged after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the birth of Daesh revealed new dimensions of the catastrophes.
Citing the broad-scale criminal acts of Daesh, such as mass murder of innocent people, mass sexual abuse of victims, torture and enslaving of the human beings and broadcasting of such criminal acts on social networks shamelessly, he said that new dimensions of the serious threats posed by the newest version of terrorism have come to light.
'Daesh is recruiting terrorists from 90 countries around the globe, including industrial western 'democracies'. It is purporting the structural and social maladies in the societies.'
Zarif highlighted that Takfiri groups tendencies have easily justified anti-social acts against ethnic minorities and even boasting of such acts, and furthermore, the criminal acts of such groups against their other siblings, such as the March 21, 2014 war of Daesh against al-Nusra in northern Syria, which led to 1,000 of their forces dead.
Destroying historical mosques, churches, tombs, and desecration of sanctities, and unlimited destroying of the rich cultural heritage of the regional nations reveal the future plans of the extremists for the region.
Zarif elaborated on the non-Islamic nature of Daesh, the evident foreign hands involved in creating the notorious group, and presented a practical strategy for encountering the inhumane phenomenon based on sound logic, international cooperation, and refrain from double-standards in international campaign against terrorism.
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