Iran uses September 11 to stir up trouble between Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia
IRAN has stirred up diplomatic troubles with Saudi Arabia after its foreign minister told Donald Trump to discuss September 11 with the nation’s leaders during his visit.
By TARYN TARRANT-CORNISH
Express.co.uk
Sun, May 21, 2017
Foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, advised US President Donald Trump to discuss how to avoid another September 11 attack with the Saudi hosts of his first official visit abroad, in an editorial published on Sunday.
Tehran and Riyadh are regional arch-rivals which accuse each other of sponsoring fundamentalist militias aligned to their competing sects of Islam in war zones across the Middle East.
Critics of Saudi Arabia say its strict view of Islam fuels Sunni extremism, called takfir, and some even accuse the kingdom of responsibility for the September 11 attacks.
Saudi Arabia denies providing any support for the 19 hijackers – most of whom were Saudi citizens – who killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001.
Writing for the London-based website of Al Araby Al-Jadeed news network, Mr Zarif said: “(Trump) must enter into dialogue with them about ways to prevent terrorists and takfiris from continuing to fuel the fire in the region and repeating the likes of the September 11 incident by their sponsors in Western countries.”
At a campaign event last February, Mr Trump himself suggested to supporters that the kingdom may be behind the attacks.
He said: “You will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center because they have papers out there that are very secret. You may find it’s the Saudis, okay, but you will find out.”
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