Iran says West responsible for migrant crisis after Greece boat disaster

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    BBC Monitoring International Reports, June 20, 2023 ALERT, 1pp
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    • Abstract:
      By BBC Monitoring Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanani has blamed Western policies as the "root" cause of the migrant crisis that led to last week's deadly boat disaster near Greece. Kanani wrote in Persian on Twitter on 20 June that the West "cannot show such irresponsibility towards the refugee crisis" and insisted that the "root" of the influx of many refugees to the West from Asia and Africa was the "wrong policies" of the US and Europe in those regions...