TEHRAN, Aug. 27 — Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday expressed his country’s readiness to establish joint security arrangements with neighboring states.
Pezeshkian said Iran is reaching out to its neighbors to develop such arrangements “not from a position of weakness, but based on its war experience,” according to a statement published on the website of his office.
“We know what war is, and we know that when missiles and bombs land, they do not differentiate between the dreams of an Iranian mother and an Arab mother,” he told the 40th International Conference on Islamic Unity in Tehran.
He proposed that Muslim states conclude a mutual security and non-aggression treaty among themselves, stressing that Islamic countries must commit to respecting each other’s territorial integrity, refraining from using their soil, airspace, and facilities to invade another Muslim state, and avoiding supporting efforts to destabilize or disintegrate one another.
Pezeshkian also called on Muslim states to cooperate in managing regional security and form joint working groups to promote cooperation in areas including infrastructure, trade, investment and clean energy. The 40th International Conference on Islamic Unity kicked off on Thursday and will continue until Sunday. (Namibia Daily News / Xinhua)
