AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabifard has called on Russia to immediately correct its stance regarding three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf.
He made the remarks in his second sermon to this week’s Friday prayers of the Iranian capital, in a reference to a final statement of a recent foreign ministerial meeting of Russia and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states.
Considering the strategic relations between Tehran and Moscow and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization charter regarding respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the member countries, the Iranian people and the Muslim nations of the region seriously expect Russia to immediately correct its recent position, the senior cleric said.
The director-general for the Persian Gulf affairs at the Iranian Foreign Ministry Ali Reza Enayati summoned Russia’s Ambassador in Tehran Alexey Dedov to protest against a statement issued by Moscow and the Arab littoral states of the Persian Gulf that allegedly disputed Iran's sovereignty over three islands in the region.
Enayati stressed that the three Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb, and the Lesser Tunb belong to Iran forever.
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