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Sunday, September 23, 2018

US tells Iran to 'look in the mirror' after Ahvaz attack

The US minister to the UN has encouraged Iran to "look in the mirror" for the reasons for an assault on a military procession that killed 25 on Saturday. 
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Nikki Haley said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had "mistreated his kin for quite a while".

She was reacting to Mr Rouhani's furious feedback of the US, in which he pointed the finger at it for empowering the assault.

Two separate gatherings have guaranteed they completed the shooting, however neither has given confirmation.

Four shooters opened fire at Revolutionary Guard troops in the south-western city of Ahvaz on Saturday, killing 25 individuals including officers and regular folks viewing a dedicatory march.

One of the casualties was a four-year-old young lady.

Who is faulting who?

An enemy of government Arab bunch - Ahvaz National Resistance - and the Islamic State (IS) gather both guaranteed duty regarding the killings.

Furthermore, Mr Rouhani said the "domineering jerk" US, alongside Gulf states it upheld, had empowered the assault.

Be that as it may, the US has denied duty and says it denounces "any psychological militant assault", while a senior authority for the United Arab Emirates - one of the nations Mr Rouhani was believed to allude - called the allegations "unmerited".

"He has the Iranian individuals... dissenting, each ounce of cash that goes into Iran goes into his military, he has mistreated his kin for quite a while and he needs to take a gander at his own particular base to make sense of what standpoint that is maintaining," Ms Haley told CNN.

"He can point the finger at every one of us he needs. The thing he must do is look in the mirror."

Mr Rouhani will confront Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly this week.

Talking on Sunday, before leaving for the UN in New York, Mr Rouhani pledged that Iran would "not let this wrongdoing stand".

"It is completely obvious to us who carried out this wrongdoing... what's more, whom they are connected to," he said.

He charged that a Gulf nation had upheld the "monetary, weaponry and political needs" of the assailants.

He included: "The little manikin nations in the area are upheld by America, and the US is inciting them and giving them the important capacities."

For what reason does Iran accuse its Gulf neighbors for the assault?

Mr Rouhani did not determine which "manikin" nations he was alluding to - however his remarks are broadly thought to be coordinated at Iran's provincial adversary Saudi Arabia, and the UAE and Bahrain.

Iran has already affirmed that Saudi Arabia underpins rebel action among Iran's Arab minority.

The two nations have been battling for provincial political and religious strength for quite a long time, and are occupied with various intermediary wars around the district, backing rival groups in Yemen and Syria.

The decades-old fight between them is exacerbated by religious contrasts - Iran is to a great extent Shia Muslim, while Saudi Arabia considers itself to be the main Sunni Muslim power.

The UAE and Bahrain are firmly aligned with Saudi Arabia.

Iran has likewise asserted that the shooters had connections to its severe adversary Israel.

Iran thinks about Israel as an ill-conceived occupier of Muslim land - and has blamed it for endeavoring to undermine the administration.

Iran additionally called ambassadors from the UK, the Netherlands, and Denmark on Saturday, blaming their nations for harboring Iranian resistance gatherings.

And why are US-Iran relations so tense?

The opposite sides have had prickly relations for quite a long time.

The US has blamed Iran for running a secret atomic weapons program, which Iran denies.

In 2015, under then-President Barack Obama, the US and Iran achieved a milestone atomic arrangement - likewise marked by China, Russia, the UK, France and Germany - where Iran restricted its atomic exercises in return for sanctions help.

In any case, ties weakened after Mr Trump took office and afterward pulled back from the atomic arrangement.

From that point forward, the US has brought endorses again into the right spot, regardless of resistance from EU accomplices, China and Russia, and cautioned that anybody exchanging with Iran would likewise be rebuffed.

The US has likewise communicated help for hostile to government nonconformists in Iran.

All the more by and large, the US is profoundly suspicious of Iranian action in the Middle East - incorporating its impact in Syria and Yemen - and is a partner of Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Mr Trump is leading an UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday - and says the gathering will be centered around Iran.