US should pay the price for visiting MKO ringleader: Spokesman

Qasemi made the remarks in a Monday press conference.

These kinds of visits are not fresh and mostly US officials have shown that they have not been able to learn any lessons from their previous mistakes during the last decades, he said.

US officials taking wrong policies have attempted to develop terrorism in the region and the visits are also made in line with these policies.

He went on to say that even with changing the government in the US, the attitude toward expanding terrorism in the rdgion still exists and this is what US has to pay the price for.

To a question on Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif talking with his Egyptian counterpart after the terrorist operations in that country, FM spox said that
Zarif just expressed Iran's condolences and the two sides talked on the issues of mutual interest.

He reiterated that the sad occasion in Egypt should have been condemned quickly since terrorists aim at making religious gap by targeting religious centers and churches.

It is necessary to take urgent and serious measures in fighting terrorism more than the past, he noted.

Three consecutive explosions in Alexandria and Cairo provinces, including bomb attacks on two Egyptian Coptic churches, killed 42 people and wounded more than 100 on April 9. Three of the victims were the military men.

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