"They needed an imaginary enemy to justify their presence in the region and in line with this strategy, they began the Iranophobia project," Najjar said upon arrival from a two-day visit to Doha.
During the visit, he held meetings with a number of high-ranking Qatari officials and endorsed a security Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Qatar on strengthening border cooperation and coordination as well as fighting marine crimes.
Najjar viewed the MoU as a way to defuse plots against Iran, and said the regional states have become aware of the enemies' propaganda against unity among the regional countries.
"They (the regional countries) have come to the conclusion that they should cooperate with the Islamic Republic as a counterbalance in the region so that security of region is provided through cooperation and coordination among the regional states," he stressed.
A number of other Iranian officials and politicians had earlier warned of western attempts to spread Iranophobia in the region.
A senior Iranian legislator in February had cautioned that the US move to expand its anti-missile batteries in the Persian Gulf was aimed at portraying Iran as a major threat and inspiring the regional states with a feeling of Iranophobia.
"The US is seeking to create an atmosphere of Iranophobia in the region through stationing networks of anti-missile batteries in the Persian Gulf littoral states," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Karim Abedi said, underlining that the move has been devised "to secure interests of the United States the Zionist regime of Israel".
"The US is striving to fill the Arab countries of the region with an imaginary threat to divert their attention from struggle and campaign against the Zionist regime of Israel," he added.
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