Iran said on Saturday that the continuous riots in Iraq were a threat to all regional countries, stressing the root of the turbulent situation was the current foreign occupation, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Iranian Minister of Interior Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said the insecurity and the terrorist acts in Iraq, which were associated with the foreign occupation, exerted detrimental impact on the security of the neighboring states, the report said.

"Such moves account for the promotion of regional insecurity andthe horror dominating Iraq," Mohammadi was quoted as saying at a meeting with a Jordanian delegation.

Iran has been keeping a close watch on its western neighbor since the downfall of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Tehran has also been enthusiastically urging the foreign troops to withdraw from Iraq, saying the end of occupation was a necessarystep helpful to the restoration of peace and stability to the war-torn country.

Source: Xinhua