Turkish Foreign Ministry Slams Iran Regime's Hollow Bluster
- Monday, 20 February 2017 21:46
Turkish Foreign Ministry has denounced Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman’s remarks that Turkey should not test Iran’s patience.
"It is neither acceptable nor comprehensible for a country [Iran] -- which does not even hesitate to push to the battlefield the refugees seeking shelter from crises -- to accuse others of being responsible for regional tensions and instability," Foreign Ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu told reporters in Ankara on Monday.
Muftuoglu said Iran should "take constructive steps and go over its regional policies instead of putting the blame on countries which criticize it."
His remarks came after Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Turkey should not "test Iran’s patience".
It is noteworthy that Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, stated in the Munich conference: “the Iranian regime has been behind some incidents as well as the instability in the region. The sectarian policy adopted by this regime will undermine the security of many Arab states of the Persian Gulf such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia."
