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Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri snubs some Arab leaders for their pro-west approach


Senior cleric has met with Syrian Cultural attaché in Tehran as the outgoing envoy wrap up his mission in the country, questining some pro-Western Arab states support for the west.

Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri, Head of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought met with Ghassan Ghasem al-Kelas, Syrian Cultural Attaché in Iran in the last leg of the Syrian official’s mission to the country and stressed maintaining Islamic unity as the motivation behind all cultural plans, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).

Ghassan al-Kelas, in this meeting, gave a full report of the activities by the Cultural Department of Syria Embassy in Tehran pledging to remain Iran’s cultural representative wherever possible.

Iranian senior cleric slammed foreign and domestic interferences and rapture of the peace in Syria and expressed his best wishes for the Syrian nation.

“How does an Arab country spend tens of billions of Muslim properties on useless weaponry just for supporting some Western countries?” asked the top cleric.

Ayatollah Taskhiri referred to the recent events in Syria and said,” Reforms is a necessity in each system,” adding that the true calls for reform, and not the pseudo-supporters of that, have to be promptly answered.

He referred to the original Islamic culture between the countries as the reason behind the friendly Damascus-Tehran relations.

Advisor to the  Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei   also referred to the shaky economic situation in the West and slammed some regional countries for their support of the Western countries saying that the moves of the regional countries must not be to the benefit of the West and World powers.

This meeting was also attended by Mohammad Hassan Tabarayeean, international deputy of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought and Hujjat-ol-Islam Mohammad Mahdi Taskhiri, Director of Taqrib News Agency (TNA).

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