Here is the full text of Zarif’s article:
A Saudi official has recently threatened to 'have the battle in Iran'. I declare formally and in the name of the government of Iran today that we are ready to present peace as a gift to the entire region, foremost to Saudi Arabia.
The realization of this issue, however, depends on the Saudi government ending its futile war and deadly attacks against the Yemeni people and abandoning its crackdown on the pro-democracy majority in neighboring countries.
Some Arab governments have drawn our region into instability in recent years through escalating their destructive policies and measures.
Promoting and supporting extremist ideologies and presenting a violent and unrealistic image from Islam on the one hand, and sacrificing the interests of the regional countries through promotion of instability, bloodshed and fratricide on the other sums up these policies.
These bellicose measures altogether would ultimately result in nothing other than serving the greatest enemies of the Muslim and Arab nations.
The policy line currently being pursued by Saudi rulers is helping the Iranophobia project which has been initiated and promoted by the Zionist regime for years.
Today, the stable Iran is seeking stability in the entire region because it knows that achieving security at home at the expense of insecurity among neighbors is basically impossible.
If the American president sees himself as a friend of the Riyadh regime and is loyal to his election campaign slogans, he should talk to it about the ways of containing Takfiri terrorists in the region and preventing other 9/11s from being repeated in Western countries by Saudi citizens.
Iran is ready to cooperate with regional and extra-regional countries on fighting terrorism and extremism and helping restore peace and tranquility in Syria.
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