Tehran should be careful with missile shield set up in Turkey

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says one should be careful of deployment of “enemies’” missile shield in Turkey, that is said to be against Iran. “Turkey is among our brothers and sincere friends; however, when enemies set up missile shield there and admit it’s against Iran, one should be careful,” President Ahmadinejad told a group of Kuwaiti mediapersons here late Thursday. He said the Islamic Republic of Iran has not taken any stance against anybody, save the Zionist regime of Israel, and has since victory of the Islamic Revolution announced that wants establishment of brotherly relations with all regional states. He noted that there might, however, be certain group of people serving as aliens’ mouthpieces as a result of enemies’ insinuations but the official and definite policy of Iran is having brotherly ties with regional states. On the West’s sale of considerable amount of arms to regional states, President Ahmadinejad said, “A reporter asked me whether I was concerned over sale of USD60 billion worth arms to regional states by the United States and I said that I am not because we consider all regional states as our brothers. However, it should be asked why such a volume of arms should be sold to regional states?” He said, “If the arms are not used anywhere, the west, that one of its main interests is selling arms, will no longer be able to sell weapons to the regional countries; so, they should try to design a conspiracy and wage a war among “brothers” to provide a means for purchase of new arms and use of the already sold weapons.” He stressed that regional states have no drastic and basic differences, sharing one God, prophet, book and Qibla, while the European nations face 72 Qiblas and have been constantly at odds for centuries, waging wide-scale wars. Only two world wars, he added, left more than 100 million killed as no such a thing has happened in the Muslim world, and the Persian Gulf. Elsewhere in his remarks, President Ahmadinejad said all know well that Americans can not do a damn thing against Iran. “(Former US President) Mr. (George W.) Bush wished to deal a minor blow on Iran but to no avail.” Iran is worried about its brothers in the region, said the president, adding that when the country opposes presence and intervention of foreigners in the region, that’s because foreigners have no way to protect their interests save dividing brothers and friendly states. He then said Iran is ready to host the meeting of Muslim states to shore up support for Syria. Asked about Syria and Iran’s contribution to resolving of the country’s problems, President Ahmadinejad said the first thing to be done is avoiding further differences. Unfortunately, he said, certain countries send arms to Syria that would afford no help to settlement of problems, rather heightening tension. The people and government of Syria are Muslims and Muslim states should collectively look into the country’s issues and help iron out differences and forge reforms, he said. Based on reliable evidences, the US and its allies have designed extensive plans against regional states, revealed the president, adding that they (the US and its allies) have plans even for the countries that are today sending arms to Syria. To the end of his remarks, President Ahmadinejad said Iran is ready to lift up visa issuance for Iranian and Kuwaiti nationals, especially Kuwaiti mediapersons, visiting the either country.