MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Thursday, OIC foreign ministers held an extraordinary meeting on Iran in Saudi Arabia, condemning the aggression against the Saudi missions in Tehran and Mashhad earlier in January.
"The main challenges of the Islamic world, including the fight against terrorism, extremism and sectarianism, have not received due attention by OIC although the organization is completely aware of the roots of those problems and of those who were causing them," the IRNA news agency quoted Araqchi as saying on Friday.
The Iranian deputy foreign minister said he regretted that the organization attached great importance to the incidents on January 2, when Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia announced the execution of prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, triggering attacks on the Saudi missions in Iran, the region’s main Shiite power.
Saudi Arabia formally severed diplomatic ties with Iran after the attacks on the diplomatic mission in Tehran and Mashhad, and was joined by Bahrain, Sudan and Djibouti, while the United Arab Emirates downgraded its diplomatic relations with Iran and Kuwait recalled its ambassador.
