Terrorism developing in the Middle East has been created by international powers and is there to serve a political purpose. In an article by Hossein Royvaran on its Sunday edition, the Tehran-based English newspaper, Iran Daily wrote that at present, the emergence of terrorism is of high significance for big powers, for they use it as a tool to achieve their goals in the Middle East. Takfiri terrorist groups are one of a kind created by the West to fight against Russia. The second generation of terrorist groups includes those currently active in Syria, i.e. the ISIL, the Al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham whose US-led project aims to overthrow the Syrian government. UN member states still have no agreed-upon definition of terrorism, and this fact has been a major obstacle to meaningful international countermeasures against countries supporting terrorism. In fact, the emergence of terrorism is rooted in Western double-standards. The West has no problem with terrorists as long as they murder and behead people in the Middle East. However, once they carry out an attack in France, the West makes so much ado. Once the West is targeted by terrorist attacks, such acts will be considered illegal. This is while terrorist activities that are in the West's service are seen as legal. Thus, terrorism will not be uprooted until such double-standards exist. The phenomenon of terrorism is abominable throughout the world. Without an iota of doubt, international consensus against terrorism will not be achieved unless an exact definition of the concept is presented. At present, the West considers resistance movements like Hamas as terrorist groups, but Israeli extremists setting fire to Palestinian homes in the West Bank are not terrorists. The West and certain regional countries' interests lie in promoting Iranophobia to project Iran as a domineering power. But the Islamic Republic has come into existence from a popular revolution and that's why the country has always been supporting regional countries. But the West considers it as a hegemonic one. Therefore, the West follows Iranophobia based on their political goals. In addition, the media, as an important tool in the fight against terrorism, can play an important role in disclosing double-standards in dealing with terrorism.
