Backing for Sovereignty of Regional States

A senior Iranian official said on Monday Iran always supports the sovereign states and is against the disintegration of regional countries. "We are ready to hold talks with regional countries to decrease tensions and to maintain stability and security," Head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Kamal Kharazi said in an address to Tehran Security Conference, IRNA reported. "West Asia has faced many developments including aggressions against neighboring countries over the past four decades," he said. "Among these aggressions are imposed wars by Iraq on Iran, the Soviet Union on Afghanistan, Iraq on Kuwait, the US on Iraq, western countries on Libya in North Africa and the developments during the Arab Spring," he noted. "The illegal interference of regional and trans-regional countries in the internal affairs of Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen has created chaos in the region," Kharrazi stressed.