Amir-Abdollahian issued that opinion during a meeting with Abdulla Shahid, President of the United Nations General Assembly, at the headquarters of the world’s largest organization.

An international legal committee in the Islamic Republic has begun gathering evidence to convict the perpetrators of that atrocity and bring their cases to justice.

According to the head of Iranian diplomacy, the scourge currently affects the entire world and Iran supports cooperation to eradicate it in the countries of the region, from Lebanon to Iraq and Afghanistan.

General Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, used to lead advice to Iraq and Syria against terrorism at the request of the governments of those countries.

That assistance was conducive to Baghdad defeating the radical group in late 2017, while on the other side, the United States is turning to those extremists in a bid to justify its presence in the region.

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