Iran dismisses Trump's national security strategy as "imbalanced"

TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday refuted the U.S. President Donald Trump's national security strategy as "imbalanced" and "one-sided," Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said that the document published by the Trump administration is full of "futile efforts" to introduce Iran as a threat, which is totally rejected and condemned.

"The unwise content of this imbalanced and one-sided strategy clearly shows that the U.S. government is trying to play the blame game in face of the challenges, dysfunctions and self-created problems it has always been dealing with in the domestic and international arena," Qasemi was quoted as saying.

The threats that the United States assumes to be facing mostly emanate from wrong policies, behaviors and practices of its politicians and statesmen over the past decade towards other nations of the world, especially their numerous mistakes in the sensitive and strategic West Asian region and the Persian Gulf, he said.

The new U.S. national security strategy is a reckless one which will undoubtedly lead the world towards more insecurity, increase instability and expand terrorism, he added.

Trump on Monday announced the national security strategy, the first of its kind since he took office in January and the 17th since the former Reagan administration began to submit the report to the U.S. Congress in 1987.

Trump defended a string of his highly controversial decisions including to decertify the hard-won Iran nuclear deal reached in July 2015 and implemented in January 2016. Enditem