Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that the United States is selling arms into the Middle East which were beyond the region's needs, turning it into a "tinderbox", state news agency IRNA reported.
"The level of arms sales by the Americans is unbelievable and much beyond regional needs and this points to the very dangerous policies followed by the Americans," IRNA reported Zarif as saying.
"The U.S. policy has brought many modern destructive weapons to the region, which have been no help in establishing regional peace and security," Zarif said ahead of the Second Speakers' Conference in Tehran.
Asked about U.S. accusations that Iran is testing missiles able to reach Europe, Zarif said U.S. officials "spare no effort to disrupt relations between Iran and Europe, so they resort to baseless allegations these days," according to the same source.
"They try to distort the regional issues."
"We've read in the American media that U.S. arms are in hands of al-Qaeda in Yemen and Daesh in Syria, and this is a danger threatening our region," Zarif said, according to IRNA.
Turkey has also objected to the U.S. supplying weapons to the terrorist group YPG/PKK in northern Syria.
On the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, an executive of the Chinese firm Huawei, Zarif said: "Isolated on the world stage, the U.S. got into a [trade] war with China and even arrested a senior Huawei executive, showing the U.S.' frustration rather than its power."
The U.S. has claimed that Meng, the daughter of the founder of Huawei, used an unofficial subsidiary named Skycom to do business with Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.
The Speakers' Conference, hosted by Tehran with the participation of Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, China and Russia, focuses on the "Challenges of Terrorism and Inter-Regional Connectivity."
