Hawzah News Agency (Tehran, Iran) -Rouhani addressed scores of thinkers from around the world at an international Islamic unity conference in Tehran on Thursday, December 15, saying that the ongoing bloodletting in Muslim countries is being orchestrated by major powers and the Zionists.

"The aim of the enemies is to create hopelessness and destroy the opportunities of the Muslim communities," the president said as he touched on some of the atrocities unfolding in Iraq and elsewhere.

"Big powers set up streams of blood in the streets of Mosul and destroyed this beautiful city. They took away sleep from Muslims and enslaved Muslim and Christian girls who were under the banner of a single government," he said.

Rouhani said Western powers and their regional allies are responsible for the destruction of cities and beheading of Muslim youths.

"First and foremost, the sin related to these crimes befalls on big colonialists, Western powers and occupiers of the region which opened the way to terrorist groups, armed them and bought smuggled oil from them, allowing looted works from destroyed museums to be sold in their markets.

"The second culprits are some of the Muslim countries which gave money and weapons to terrorist groups," Rouhani said. 

The president called on Muslim thinkers to invite the youths to the true message of Islam and exhort them to follow the path of divine messengers, culminating in the teachings of Prophet Muhammad.

"We must not allow the enemies of Islam to take away this capacity from us and destroy it or increase division and schism under various pretexts." he added.

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