Iran urges halt of foreign aid to terrorists

Iran's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Gholam Hossein Dehqani called for exerting pressure on the regional and international parties to stop funding and arming terrorist groups across the world."The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) requests the entire world countries to refrain from all types of terrorist acts and not to offer any type of political, financial, or spiritual assistance to the terrorists," Dehqani said in New York on Monday.He noted that NAM also seriously condemns all types of terrorist acts as breaching both the international laws and the rules of humanity."NAM rejects resorting to any kinds of threats, or aggressive acts against any of its members on the pretext of campaign against terrorism, including branding them as governments that support terrorism etc.," he added.Earlier this year, Dehqani called on the UN to hold an international conference attended by all countries' high-ranking officials to study ways of fight against terrorism."The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) assumes the present measures to counter terrorism in the international arena as to be inadequate and calls for increased movement by the international community in this regard," Dehqani said, addressing a UN Security Council meeting on behalf of the NAM."Increasing multilateral cooperation among countries under the supervision of the UN can act as the most effective tool to counter international terrorism and therefore, NAM offers to hold an international summit under the UN supervision to study and give a shared response to terrorism and its different forms," he added.Dehqani also condemned the politically-tainted and double-standard behavior of certain states towards terrorism, and describing it as an obstacle on the way of decisive campaign against terrorism.In relevant remarks in December, Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi voiced Iran's strong support for all-out cooperation in the war on terrorism, but meantime underlined the need for identification and removal of the root causes of this devilish phenomenon."Extremism, terrorism and violence is not acceptable any noble and rooted culture, religion or nation. The Islamic Republic of Iran as the biggest victim of terrorist operations in the region and the world in the recent years expresses its readiness for comprehensive cooperation in fighting terrorism," Rahimi said in the 11th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit meeting in Kyrgyz Capital city of Bishkek at the time.He further stressed Tehran's emphasis on "the identification and eradication of the roots" of terrorism as a main task which needs to be taken by the international community.