AhlulBayt News Agency:. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh blasted the recent remarks by Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir, and said that nearly all terrorist groups in the region have graduated from Saudi-funded schools.
Khatibzadeh wrote on his Twitter account that the Riyadh's regime should revisit its decades-old policy of fueling tensions throughout the region.
"Wahabism—nurtured by colonial powers—has been the source of bigotry, hatred and terrorism in our region — and beyond," the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman tweeted.
"Fact: Every terrorist group in our region has graduated from Saudi-funded Madrassas. No amount of Saudi obfuscation can hide this ugly reality," he added.
Khatibzadeh called on the Saudis to change their ways, as the policy of creating tensions can no longer be continued.
Khatibzadeh's reaction came after al-Jubeir in recent tweets wrote, "Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif is desperate to blame the Kingdom for anything negative that happens in Iran. Will he blame us for the next earthquake or flood?"
"It is not the policy of Saudi Arabia to engage in assasinations; unlike Iran, which has done so since the Khomeini Revolution in 1979. Ask us, and ask many other countries who have lost many of their citizens due to Iran’s criminal and illegal behavior!," al-Jubeir claimed.
Al-Jubeir’s insulting comments came in reaction to remarks by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Zarif had earlier blamed the kingdom, the US, and Israel for cooperating with one another to enable the November 27 assassination near Tehran of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a senior Iranian nuclear scientist.
He had cited Netanyahu’s visit to Riyadh, trilateral meetings involving him, Saudi officials, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo -- who was visiting the Saudi capital during a frenzied tour of the region -- and concurrent Iranophobic remarks by the Israeli premier.
The surprisingly coincidental developments, Zarif had regretted, “unfortunately crystalized in the form of the cowardly terrorist act and [consequent] martyrdom of one of the country’s senior directors (Fakhrizadeh).”
The foreign minister had also shown how the assassination had been followed by a misinformation campaign on Twitter featuring countless fake accounts and tweets attacking Iran, something for which he still blamed the trio.
Martyr Fakhrizadeh's car was targeted by an explosion and machinegun fire in Damavand's Absard 40 kilometers to the East of Tehran on November 27 (last Friday).
The nuclear scientist and one of his companions were immediately taken to a nearby hospital but he could not be saved.
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