Tehran, YJC. Head of the Expediency Discernment Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says Iran’s foreign policy in the past few years isolated the country.
Hashemi who was speaking to the members of the International
Affairs Think Tank of the Expediency Discernment Council’s International
Department said "Foreign policy has rules. It is no place for mottos. One must
not ruin opportunities instead of making use of them.”
He then compared Iran’s foreign polices during the previous
administrations and said that a country’s economy thrives through relations
with other counties.
Also pointing to terrorist movements in the Middle East he
stat that when world powers made use of reactionary groups for their short-term
goals, the threat turned back on them, so much so that the terrorists groups
which burgeoned in the region are now a threat to everyone from Europe to the Americas.
He also provided comments on the ongoing developments in
Ukraine and stated that if Russia and the US do not manage the situation
wisely, the West will face many psychological security issues.