TEHRAN: Iran and Oman will work to boost their ties, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, as a diplomatic crisis persists in the Gulf.
“Iran and Oman have for years had fraternal relations and the best must be made of these good relations to reinforce them,” Rouhani said as he met Oman’s foreign minister.
The Iranian government’s website reported Foreign Minister Yussef bin Alawi as replying: “Omani leaders believe our ties should be developed.”
Oman, which has maintained ties with Qatar, took part this week in a string of Kuwaiti and US-led talks toward resolving the crisis. Rouhani slammed the sanctions imposed on Doha, which Qatar has called a “blockade”. “Threatening, pressuring and imposing a blockade against neighbors, including Qatar, is an erroneous method and everyone must try to reduce the tensions in the region,” he said.
He also criticized “the policies of certain countries in the region against Syria, Yemen and Bahrain.”
Iran and Oman to strengthen ties amid Gulf crisis
Iran and Oman to strengthen ties amid Gulf crisis
Iran’s Larijani attends Tehran march, dismisses attacks
- Iran’s national security chief Ali Larijani on Friday openly attended a mass rally in Tehran, dismissing the latest Israeli-US attacks on the capital as being “out of desperation“
TEHRAN: Iran’s national security chief Ali Larijani on Friday openly attended a mass rally in Tehran, dismissing the latest Israeli-US attacks on the capital as being “out of desperation.”
“These attacks are out of fear, out of desperation. One who is strong wouldn’t bomb demonstrations at all. It’s clear that it has failed,” Larijani told state TV while marching for the annual Quds Day rally in support of the Palestinian cause.
A Woman killed after a US-Israeli airstrike hit the vicinity of the Tehran rally on Friday.
The attendance by Larijani was one of the most high-profile public appearances by an Iranian official since the February 28 strike that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials. National police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan also attended, state TV pictures showed.
