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From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 18, 2014
From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 18, 2014
Iran’s official calls for punishment of ‘Zionists, Takfiris’
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, the country’s chief negotiator in nuclear talks with world powers, says that “Zionists and Takfiris” — hard-line Muslims who accuse others of apostasy — should be prosecuted and punished.
Araqchi pans what the Fars News Agency calls the “international community’s silence on the massacre of the innocent Palestinian people by Israel and other regional people.”
“The Zionists and Takfiris shouldn’t escape unpunished,” Fars quotes Araqchi saying.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi (photo credit: YouTube/Press TV/File)
