Under such a strategy, Iran has sought to inform the Muslim countries in the region about this historic and religious reality that any form of division among these countries would be a gift to governments outside of the region because it enables them to interfere in the domestic affairs of the countries in the region and to plunder their natural resources and jeopardize their security.
In an address to ambassadors of the Islamic countries in Iran and Muslim scholars on October 3, 2023, Ayatollah Khamenei highlighted acts of plunder and interference carried out by foreign governments in Muslim countries over the past decades and asked leaders, politicians and thinkers in those countries to ponder the question: Who is really against the unity of Muslim countries and who would lose from unity among those nations as such unity would prevent outsiders from plundering the wealth of Muslim nations and interfering in their internal affairs?
The United States’ presence in West Asia, a region mostly known as MENA (Middle East and North Africa), for some 100 years has deprived the people of the region from the wealth and natural resources that have ended up in the hands of Western governments. The sad thing about this is that the US justifies this plundering by claiming in the United Nations Security Council and in other international institutions that its presence in those countries has been meant to create peace and security and to counter social, economic and political crises despite the fact that the US itself has played the most significant role in fueling those crises in the region.
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