Writing in local media, Khamenei aide says new Labour leader believes West has ignored Iran’s ability to bring regional peace
New British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn has won praise from a senior Iranian official who hailed him as a leader with a “different approach,” who understands Iran’s peacemaking abilities, British newspaper the Telegraph reported, citing the Iranian media.
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Quoting the Raja News website, which the Telegraph says has ties to former hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syed Salman Safavi said the far-left parliamentarian has already “shaken the most important pillars of class discrimination in Great Britain – the traditional aristocracy.”
“The foundations of Jeremy Corbyn’s political thought are democracy, justice and peace,” wrote Safavi, who the Telegraph describes as an aide to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Corbyn, Safavi added, has repeatedly said “that one of the mistakes of Britain’s policy in Syria has been not including Iran in the efforts to resolve the crisis in this country.”
Iran is a key backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has been fighting opposition forces and Islamic extremists for control of his country for more than four years.
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