Iran says a decision by councilors in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk to take part in next month’s independence referendum is a “provocative, wrong and unacceptable mistake.”
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the terrorists’ plot in Syria has failed, stressing that the country will not rest until the full restoration of security to the entire Syrian territory.
The secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, has dismissed claims that Hezbollah and the Lebanese government were exposing Iraq to greater security risks by evacuating hundreds of terrorists from the Lebanon-Syria border to areas near the Iraqi border in Syria.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has criticized the global community for remaining silent on the persisting violence against the persecuted Rohingya Muslims, calling for "crucial" action to end the acts of aggression against the minority group.