"The international conference on combating terrorism will commence on June 25, and will be attended by six heads of states and a number of prime ministers and foreign ministers," the official IRNA news agency quoted Salehi as saying.
The heads of state include Afghanistan's Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai,
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
Iraq's Jalal Talabani, Pakistain's Asif Ali
President Ten PercentZardari,
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
Sudan's Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president. Omar's peculiar talent lies in starting conflict. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its imminent secessesion, and attempted to
ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
and Tajikistan's Emomali Rahmon, Iranian media reported.
"The West is the creator of terrorism and the East is blighted by it. We have high hopes for the results of this conference," Salehi said.
Sudan's Bashir is wanted by the
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity over his government's scorched earth tactics in the eight-year-old conflict in Darfur.
Despite its blacklisting by Washington as an alleged state sponsor of terrorism, Iran has consistently maintained that it is the victim after attacks on its prime minister and president in the 1980s.
Iran also faces rebellions among its Kurdish and Baluchi minorities. On Tuesday, Iran said it had tossed in the slammer four suspected members of Sunni bad turban group Jundallah in Sistan-Baluchestan province in the southeast wearing "explosive vests."