Iran has challenged the West to provide an explanation as to why people born and educated there are fighting in the ranks of Takfiri terrorist groups and executing Syrian and Iraqi children.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks at a conference in Tehran Sunday to commemorate Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei's letters addressed to Western youth in January and November 2015.
"Why are those who were born and educated in the West beheading children in Syria and Iraq?" he asked. "Why are these people showing so much brutality and barbarism? What is the West's explanation for this kind of upbringing?"
Zarif also noted that the West began the project of portraying Islam and the Islamic Republic as Iranopobia, Shiaphobia and Islamophobia in the 1990s much before the emergence of the Daesh terror outfit.
Today the so-called "Islamic terrorism" is used as one of the key words of US President Donald Trump's speeches, the top Iranian diplomat said, adding that those who had created Daesh have now hid behind their own product.