Iran Condemns Terrorist Attacks in France, Canada

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned the recent terrorist attacks in France’s Marseille and in Canada’s Edmonton that have killed and injured a number of people.

News ID: 66099

Date: 02 October 2017 - 13:03

In a statement on Sunday night, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi expressed sympathy with the families of victims of the terror attacks.

"While some countries are unfortunately busy doing business with terrorism and giving false addresses, once again a group of innocent and defenseless people fell victim to violence, assassination, and cruelty,” the Foreign Ministry’s official website quoted him as saying.

"It is necessary that the human community and all countries in the world, in an all-inclusive movement, dry up the intellectual roots, financial support and human resources of terrorism as one of the most serious human tragedies in the present century, and effectively deal with this most-hated phenomenon,” he added.

Canadian authorities say two incidents in Edmonton are being investigated as acts of terrorism after a man struck a police officer with a car before stabbing him and later plowed a truck into pedestrians on a busy street, injuring at least four people.

Also on Sunday, a man killed two women in a frenzied knife attack at Marseille’s main railway station before being shot dead by soldiers.

Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack in France, according to the group's Amaq news agency.