13 December 2011 - 20:30

Iran has added fuel to escalating tensions with Turkey by suggesting on Tuesday that Turkey's Western-like secular political structure is not compatible for post-revolution Arab nations.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Ali-Akbar Velayati, senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Imam Khamenei, told a news conference that Turkey's model of "secular Islam" was a version of western liberal democracy and unacceptable for countries that is going what he said "Islamic awakening," Financial Times reported Tuesday.

Velayati's remarks came on a day when Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Salehi. Salehi reportedly told Davutoglu that the statements are not Iran's official position.

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