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205760
Wed, 09/07/2011 - 11:32
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Senior Lawmaker Blasts Turkey's Contradictory Behavior towards Regional States
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator rapped Ankara for agreeing with the deployment of the NATO's missile system in Turkey, and said the regional nations are displeased with Ankara's contradictory attitudes and policies.
"The contradictory behavior of Turkey is not acceptable to the regional countries," Vice-Chairman of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Esmae'il Kosari told FNA on Wednesday.
Kosari said Turkey's decision resulted from a double-standard policy, and stressed that Ankara lost the reputation and prestige that it had gained through its recent positions in support of the Muslim countries.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry revealed on Friday that negotiations with NATO chiefs over the "missile shield" had reached "their final stages."
Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Selcuk Unal said, "The early warning radar system allocated by the United States to NATO will be deployed in our country."
Unal said that the plan reflected the new strategic concept approved by the Western military alliance's leaders at a Lisbon summit last year.
The United States Defense Department subsequently announced that the radar system will be operational by the end of the year.
The Iranian foreign ministry had earlier warned that NATO's demand for the establishment of the new ballistic missile shield in Turkey is "seriously suspicious".
"We think NATO's objective in deploying military forces in the region is seriously suspicious," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast told a regular news briefing earlier this year.
"We think the stationing of NATO military forces would disrupt security in the region," he added.
Also, a research center affiliated to the Iranian parliament announced in a report last month that the NATO's defense shield in the neighboring country of Turkey should be viewed as a threat to the Islamic Republic.
"Deployment of a part of this missile system in Turkey and near Iran is generally a threat to Iran," the report said.
"The contradictory behavior of Turkey is not acceptable to the regional countries," Vice-Chairman of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Esmae'il Kosari told FNA on Wednesday.
Kosari said Turkey's decision resulted from a double-standard policy, and stressed that Ankara lost the reputation and prestige that it had gained through its recent positions in support of the Muslim countries.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry revealed on Friday that negotiations with NATO chiefs over the "missile shield" had reached "their final stages."
Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Selcuk Unal said, "The early warning radar system allocated by the United States to NATO will be deployed in our country."
Unal said that the plan reflected the new strategic concept approved by the Western military alliance's leaders at a Lisbon summit last year.
The United States Defense Department subsequently announced that the radar system will be operational by the end of the year.
The Iranian foreign ministry had earlier warned that NATO's demand for the establishment of the new ballistic missile shield in Turkey is "seriously suspicious".
"We think NATO's objective in deploying military forces in the region is seriously suspicious," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast told a regular news briefing earlier this year.
"We think the stationing of NATO military forces would disrupt security in the region," he added.
Also, a research center affiliated to the Iranian parliament announced in a report last month that the NATO's defense shield in the neighboring country of Turkey should be viewed as a threat to the Islamic Republic.
"Deployment of a part of this missile system in Turkey and near Iran is generally a threat to Iran," the report said.
