The minister made the comment on Saturday in Ahvaz, the capital city of the southwestern province of Khuzestan, during a meeting with officials there.
“Security is not established through deals and memoranda of understanding with the child-killing Zionist regime. It is established from inside and through cooperation among neighboring countries,” Khatib said at the meeting.
He added that the Zionist regime is today seeking to create an integrated defense system in the regime. That’s while, he added, the regime has been humiliated in the face of Palestinians and the measures it is taking would have no results but to plunder countries’ assets.
The Iranian intelligence minister expressed hope that lasting security is established between Iran and its neighboring countries thanks to efforts by President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration to forge good ties with those countries.
