‘EU militants in Syria threat to all’

The militants who have travelled from Europe and joined terrorists in Syria may return to their homeland and pose a threat to Europe and the regional countries, a senior Iranian official has warned.

“They may go back to Afghanistan, they may come to Iran, and they may go back to Europe. It’s a common danger, a common concern for all of us,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi said in an interview with the Irish Examiner.

The Iranian official pointed to the recent assassination of an Iranian diplomat in Yemen and said “This is one of the dangers threatening all of us in the region. It’s not only contained in Yemen, it could spread to the whole region and maybe to Europe.”

On January 18, Abolqasem Asadi, the commercial attaché at the Iranian embassy in Sana’a, was gunned down by members of a terrorist group outside the Iranian ambassador’s residence in the Yemeni capital.

The Iranian official further said that if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was forced to stand down, the country would be left as a “haven for terrorists.”

“We would face a failed situation in Syria which would be a haven for all these terrorists.”

Also referring to the ongoing talks on Syria in Switzerland, the Iranian official expressed regret that some of the terrorist groups and their sponsors have been invited to Geneva conference.

The Geneva II conference on Syria has been under way in Switzerland since January 22 to find a political solution to the crisis in the Arab country.

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