"The U.S. and Western mercenaries are the roots of corruption and today the West has turned into a symbol of corruption," Aboutorabi-Fard said at a meeting on fighting corruption attended by members of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) on Saturday.

Aboutorabi-Fard reiterated that Tehran will exploit all its potentials to fight corruption and called on all ECO member states to cooperate to eradicate corruption.