adminTEHRAN. — Iran rejected an annual US report that keeps Tehran on a list of state sponsors of terrorism as reflecting double standards, media reports said yesterday.
The foreign ministry was reacting to a State Department report released Wednesday that kept Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan on its list of so-called state sponsors of terrorism.
The report also highlighted what it said was Iran’s role in supporting and funding the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in its fight against Syrian rebels.
“Accusing Iran of supporting terrorism is politicised and based on double standards,” ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said in a statement reported by the official IRNA news agency.
She questioned Washington’s anti-terrorism intentions, recalling “innocent people who fall victim” to US drone attacks in the region as well as “the turning of a blind eye to Zionist (Israeli) crimes against the Palestinians.” — AFP.
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