Iran Condemned Takfiris’ Crime in Egypt: A Foreign Conspiracy

Local Editor

Iran on Tuesday condemned an attack against Shiites in a village south of Cairo which left four martyrs and several injured, saying it is part of a "foreign conspiracy."

"Iran condemns the killing of a Shiite leader and three other Egyptian Shiite Muslims," foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi told reporters during his weekly news conference.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Monday phoned his Egyptian counterpart Mohammed Kamel Amr to discuss the crime, he said.
"We warn against such actions which are aimed at creating divisions among Muslims and are part of a foreign conspiracy," , Araqchi said.

On Sunday, four Egyptian Muslims were slaughtered and brutally tortured when they were attacked by a hostile mob in the village of Abu Mussalem in the Giza province just because they are Shiites.
The attack came after weeks of toxic anti-Shiite rhetoric in the Egyptian media and from Takfiri leaders.

"The enemies of the Egyptian revolution, who have suffered huge setbacks, are trying to create divisions in Egypt," said Araqchi. "They first created divisions between Christians and Egyptian Muslims and today among the Muslims themselves."
"We warn against these divisions which are caused by takfiris [Sunni extremists] in Egypt but also in Syria, Iraq and Pakistan," he said.

Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil has also denounced the killing of the Shias, saying that he is closely following an investigation into the incident. He has also promised that the culprits would be punished.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team