TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi condemned on Sunday a terrorist attack in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, urging the world to listen to Iran’s “peace-seeking voice in fighting terrorism”.

This terrorist incident proves the fact that fighting terrorism requires “all countries’ collective efforts”, he said.

“Adopting double standards on horrible terrorist and Takfiri actions in the region [the Middle East region] will definitely endanger the international peace and security and undermine stability and security,” Qasemi added.

All the “peace-loving” countries in the world should exert pressure on supporters of the extremist groups in order to reduce “inhuman crimes”, the ministry official remarked.

On Friday, gunmen attacked the people at a restaurant in Dhaka and took hostages and exchanged gunfire with police until police forces moved in and killed the gunmen.

According to CNN, twenty people inside the restaurant were killed, along with two police officers and six terrorists.

Bangladeshi officials announced that the nationalities of the killed ones included nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian, two Bangladeshis and one U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi origin.

Daesh, also called ISIL /ISIS/IS, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had deliberately targeted the citizens of “Crusader countries”, but it was not clear if the plot was organized by the group’s leadership in Syria or developed locally in Bangladesh.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in his Twitter account, “Latest terror attack in Dhaka, less headline-making in the West, nonetheless shows we must be united in ridding our world of this evil.”

NA/PA