Ahmadinejad: NATO's plot to dominate region hatched 10 years ago

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned about the western countries' long-term plans to loot the regional states' wealth and resources, and said NATO started its plans for dominating the region 10 years ago."The information and reports show that NATO decided to move eastwards to occupy this region over 10 years ago," Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with a number of Muslim world reporters and journalists in Tehran on Saturday. "And their main goal was revising the era of colonialism under new slogans," he added. Ahmadinejad called on all the regional nations to keep vigilant against such plots, and differentiate "freedom-seeking, justice-seeking and independence from NATO and Zionists' interference". Iranian officials have on many occasions urged the regional states to keep vigilant against the plots hatched by Washington and Tel Aviv to destabilize those countries which are standing against the United States' and the Zionist regime's hegemonic and aggressive policies. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast in September advised all the regional countries to keep vigilant against American-Zionist plots in the region, and underlined that the regional states "should not allow the United States and the Israeli regime to secure their interests through destabilizing those countries which are standing in the frontline of confrontation against the Zionist regime of Israel". He further reminded the western states' dual approach towards the developments in the region, and said while the western countries launch a military raid on Libya to guarantee future oil deals and kill scores of civilians in their strikes on the Arab state, they ignore similar popular demands in Yemen and Bahrain, "and this double-standard approach of the West is unacceptable".