Tehran: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday expressed his country’s readiness to establish joint security arrangements with neighbouring states.
Pezeshkian said Iran is reaching out to its neighbours to develop such arrangements “not from a position of weakness, but based on its war experience,” according to a statement published on the website of his office.
“We know what war is, and we know that when missiles and bombs land, they do not differentiate between the dreams of an Iranian mother and an Arab mother,” he told the 40th International Conference on Islamic Unity in Tehran, Xinhua News Agency reported.
He proposed that Muslim states conclude a mutual security and non-aggression treaty among themselves, stressing that Islamic countries must commit to respecting each other’s territorial integrity, refraining from using their soil, airspace, and facilities to invade another Muslim state, and avoiding supporting efforts to destabilise or disintegrate one another.
Pezeshkian also called on Muslim states to cooperate in managing regional security and form joint working groups to promote cooperation in areas including infrastructure, trade, investment and clean energy.
The 40th International Conference on Islamic Unity kicked off on Thursday and will continue until Sunday.
Last week, Pezeshkian said that it is better to end the war now as Iran is in a position of “power and dignity.”
Pezeshkian made the remarks at the 31st General Assembly of the Islamic Association of the Iranian Medical Society in the capital Tehran, where he stressed that the war with the United States must end at some point, according to a statement published on his office’s website.
“It is better that we end the war today when we are in a position of power and dignity, and the entire world acknowledges our victory and emphasises that the United States, in violation of all (international) regulations, has attacked our schools, hospitals, and infrastructure, and is hated in the world,” he said.
Pezeshkian described the peace memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Iran and the United States in June as “honourable and valuable,” stressing that not a single provision of the MoU suggests surrender and that all obligations fall on the other party.
(IANS)
