Addressing a conference here in Tehran on Tuesday, Velayati said the Westerners, including Americans and Europeans, have been using any means to counter Iran’s Islamic Revolution, and are now spreading extremism to distort the image of Islam and counter the cultural waves of Islamic Awakening.

The twin letters by Ayatollah Khamenei to the Western youth, however, directly told the young generation that the biased image introduced by Westerners is not the true image of Islam, he noted.

Ayatollah Khamenei in January 2015 in a letter introduced the true image of Islam to youths in Europe and North America, and elaborated on the reasons behind the West’s attempts to spread Islamophobia.

The Leader wrote his second letter to the youth in the West on November 29, following a series of terrorist attacks in Paris.

In that letter, the Leader underlined that it is only the “youth , who by learning lessons from today’s hardships, will be able to find new solutions for building the future, and block off-roads which have led the West to this current position.”

“If countries contribute to the fight against terrorism and the ceasefire process with firm determination, then it can be said that developments in Syria are on a good path,” Amir Abdollahian said Tuesday in a meeting with Director of Swiss Foreign Ministry’s Middle East and North Africa Division Wolfgang Amadeus Bruelhart in Tehran.

In that case, there would be a better prospect for dialogue and political resolution of the Syrian crisis, the Iranian diplomat added.

During the meeting, the two sides also exchanged views about other developments in the region and the world, including the Saudi-led war against Yemen and the humanitarian crisis in the Arabian Peninsula country.

Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with various terrorist groups, including Daesh (ISIL), currently controlling parts of it.

According to a new report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, the conflict has claimed the lives of over 470,000 people, injured 1.9 million others, and displaced nearly half of the country’s pre-war population of about 23 million within or beyond its borders.

Yemen’s defenseless people have also been under massive attacks by a coalition led by the Saudi regime for nearly a year but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been launching deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

More than 8000 Yemenis, including many women and children, have died in the Saudi-led aggression so far.

“Given the extensive capacities and capabilities of the two countries in the majority of economic areas including such fields as energy and industry, the level of mutual cooperation and the volume of economic exchanges should be enhanced, and efforts should be doubled in this field,” Rouhani said.

He made the remarks in a meeting with Romanian Foreign Minister Lazar Comanescu here in the Iranian capital.

“Tehran and Bucharest should open a new chapter of accelerated reinforcement of ties and mutual political, economic, cultural, and regional cooperation,” he added.

The Iranian president further underlined the need for activation of both countries’ private sectors on the path towards the development and deepening of Iran-Romania economic cooperation, saying that there are great opportunities for public and private sectors in the two countries, which should be tapped into.

Rouhani also referred to Iran’s distinguished geographical location, which connects the north to the south and the west to the east, saying that Tehran attaches great significance to the development of railroad corridors.

Romania can play an important role in the economic relations on the two poles of this transit corridor, he added.

Comanescu, for his part, underscored Bucharest’s resolve to promote the level of its cooperation with Tehran in all political, economic, cultural, and scientific fields.

The Romanian minister, who is leading a high-ranking economic delegation in his three-day visit to Tehran, went on to say that the visit by such a huge and unprecedented delegation from Romania shows that the European country insists on expanding its bilateral relations with Iran.

“Iran’s private and public sectors can consider Romania as a gate for exporting their productions to Europe,” he added.