Greater Middle East West’s plot to save Zionists: Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Greater Middle East is a scheme hatched by the West in order to save the Zionists.

“Arrogant [powers] have said time and again that they seek to create a Greater Middle East and their sole objective is to save the Zionists and dominate the region once more,” Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with the visiting Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Ammar Hakim in Tehran on Tuesday.

Ahmadinejad noted that the ongoing crises in the region are linked to the Western conspiracies which aim to guarantee their grip on the regional states.

Stressing the need for regional nations to be vigilant against the enemies’ plots aimed at stoking conflict among them, the Iranian president said, “Solidarity, integrity and attention to people’ conventional rights constitute the best solution to countering the enemies’ conspiracy.”

Ahmadinejad stated that the regional governments should act in a way to support all people and restore their rights.

“Governments should be standard-bearer in defending rights and prosperity of all people. No discrimination should be made between different ethnicities and groups of people.”

For his part, Hakim stated that arrogant powers are intent on triggering ethnic and sectarian conflict in Iraq to reach their own spiteful objectives in the war-wrecked country.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said, “Today the main policy of the global arrogance to counter [the wave of] Islamic Awakening is to sow discord and pit Muslims in Islamic countries against each other.”