(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Iran offered to host talks among different Palestinian groups in Tehran to help facilitate their unification process, Director-General of the Iranian Presidential Office for International Affairs Mohammad Reza Forqani announced on Monday.
Forqani made the remarks, pointing to the recent meeting between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran.
"The president announced Iran's preparedness to host the Palestinian groups' negotiations in a move to unite them," he said today.
"The Palestinian side welcomed the idea and described it as practical," Forqani said.
Abbas, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Tehran on Wednesday to attend the 16th Non-Aligned Movement summit held in the Iranian capital from August 26 to 31.
His visit to Tehran angered Israeli officials so deeply that the regime's foreign minister Avigdor Liberman asked for his assassination.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman in an interview with Channel 10 of Israeli television used harsh and provocative remarks against Abbas and asked for the assassination of the PA chief or his seizure in Ramallah when he returns from Iran.
Despite the fact that his call for assassinating Abbas is a blatant case of state-sponsored terrorism, the Israeli foreign minister used vulgar language to insult over 120 NAM member states calling them all "terrorists".
"The fact that Abbas attended terrorists' summit in Tehran is a black day in Israel's history," Liberman said.
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3 September 2012 - 09:08
News ID: 344139
Iran offered to host talks among different Palestinian groups in Tehran to help facilitate their unification process, Director-General of the Iranian Presidential Office for International Affairs Mohammad Reza Forqani announced on Monday.
