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Iran Calls on European Leaders to Pay Heed to Threat of Terrorism
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi urged European statesmen to adopt more serious measures and increase cooperation with the other world countries in the campaign against terrorism.
"Unfortunately, terrorism has penetrated the most stable country of Europe (Norway) and the (EU) statesmen should take a serious notion of this danger and get united for a global campaign against terrorism," Salehi said in a meeting with outgoing Norwegian Ambassador to Iran Roald Naess in Tehran on Tuesday.
Salehi made the remarks in reference to the Saturday massive bomb explosion which rocked government headquarters in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, and a shooting spree which led to the massacre of tens of the members of the youth wing of Norway's Labor Party on nearby Utoeya Island.
Salehi had on Saturday condemned the attacks in Oslo, and extended condolences to the Scandinavian country.
The Norwegian ambassador, for his part, appreciated Iran's condemnation of the terrorist event, and said, "The event warned the Norwegian society to be vigilant against these incidents."
The killings, it now seems clear, were carried out by a 32-year old Norwegian, named by local media as Anders Behring Breivik, who had expressed far-right views, and had dressed as a policeman to carry out his bomb attack on government buildings in central Oslo before heading to the island of Utoya, where he shot at least 84 people.
Survivors of the island attack, which took place barely two hours after a huge bomb was detonated close to the offices of Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, described how the gunmen moved across the small, wooded Utoya holiday island on Friday firing at random as young people scattered in fear.
Teenagers at the lakeside camp organized by Stoltenberg's ruling Labor party fled screaming in panic, many leaping into the water or climbing trees to save themselves, when the attacker began spraying them with gunfire.
"A paradise island has been transformed into a hell," Stoltenberg told a news conference on Saturday morning.
He said he did not want to speculate on the motives of the attacks, but added, "Compared to other countries I wouldn't say we have a big problem with rightwing extremists in Norway. But we have had some groups, we have followed them before, and our police is aware that there are some rightwing groups."
Police spokesman Roger Andresen said of Behring Breivik, who was arrested by anti-terrorism officers at the scene of the shooting, "He is clear on the point that he wants to explain himself."
Andersen said the suspect also posted on websites with Christian fundamentalist tendencies. He did not describe the websites in any more details.
"Unfortunately, terrorism has penetrated the most stable country of Europe (Norway) and the (EU) statesmen should take a serious notion of this danger and get united for a global campaign against terrorism," Salehi said in a meeting with outgoing Norwegian Ambassador to Iran Roald Naess in Tehran on Tuesday.
Salehi made the remarks in reference to the Saturday massive bomb explosion which rocked government headquarters in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, and a shooting spree which led to the massacre of tens of the members of the youth wing of Norway's Labor Party on nearby Utoeya Island.
Salehi had on Saturday condemned the attacks in Oslo, and extended condolences to the Scandinavian country.
The Norwegian ambassador, for his part, appreciated Iran's condemnation of the terrorist event, and said, "The event warned the Norwegian society to be vigilant against these incidents."
The killings, it now seems clear, were carried out by a 32-year old Norwegian, named by local media as Anders Behring Breivik, who had expressed far-right views, and had dressed as a policeman to carry out his bomb attack on government buildings in central Oslo before heading to the island of Utoya, where he shot at least 84 people.
Survivors of the island attack, which took place barely two hours after a huge bomb was detonated close to the offices of Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, described how the gunmen moved across the small, wooded Utoya holiday island on Friday firing at random as young people scattered in fear.
Teenagers at the lakeside camp organized by Stoltenberg's ruling Labor party fled screaming in panic, many leaping into the water or climbing trees to save themselves, when the attacker began spraying them with gunfire.
"A paradise island has been transformed into a hell," Stoltenberg told a news conference on Saturday morning.
He said he did not want to speculate on the motives of the attacks, but added, "Compared to other countries I wouldn't say we have a big problem with rightwing extremists in Norway. But we have had some groups, we have followed them before, and our police is aware that there are some rightwing groups."
Police spokesman Roger Andresen said of Behring Breivik, who was arrested by anti-terrorism officers at the scene of the shooting, "He is clear on the point that he wants to explain himself."
Andersen said the suspect also posted on websites with Christian fundamentalist tendencies. He did not describe the websites in any more details.
