Iran, Kuwait Stress Parliamentary Cooperation

A senior Iranian lawmaker has warned against world powers’ schemes to sow discord among Muslims in order to serve their own “illegitimate interests, AVA Diplomatic reports.“Global powers with the help of certain regional countries seek to create religious conflicts and divisions in the Muslim world in line with their illegitimate interests,” said Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran’s Majlis, in a meeting with Kuwaiti Ambassador to Tehran Majdi Ahmad Ibrahim al-Zafiri .

Boroujerdi further condemned the foreign-backed terrorists’ “brutal and inhumane” desecration of the shrine of Shia Muslim figure Hujr ibn Adi, a companion of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Boroujerdi further pointed to friendly ties between Iran and Kuwait, adding the two countries have great potential for the expansion of bilateral ties.

The Kuwaiti ambassador, for his part, stressed the importance of parliamentary cooperation between Iran and Kuwait, and voiced his country’s readiness to promote parliamentary and diplomatic ties with Iran.