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Tehran, Paris agree to continue talks to overcome challenges
MEHR- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Tehran and Paris have a common stance that talks should be continued based on mutual respect in order to overcome the existing challenges.
Amir-Abdollahian in a tweet on Friday, a day after he held a face-to-face meeting in Beijing with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna, travelling with President Emmanuel Macron on his state visit to China, criticized France for failing to fulfill its obligations as per the 2015 nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
“I also emphasized that the rights of the French protesters should be observed.”
During the two-hour meeting with Colonna, the Iranian foreign minister said, the sides discussed mutual relations, the recent agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to normalize relations, which have been severed for seven years, developments in Ukraine and regional issues, including Palestine and Lebanon as well as Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program and the removal of sanctions.
Iran will benefit from Türkiye-Syria reconciliation: Analyst
IRNA- An Iranian analyst focused on West Asia region says that Iran will benefit from reconciliation between Turkiye and Syria.
Hadi Seyyed-Afghahi told IRNA on Saturday that the most important outcome of a recent meeting on Syria in Moscow, which was held in the presence of the deputy foreign ministers of Iran, Russia, Turkiye and Syria, was to remove the stumbling blocks on the way to materialize a peace plan between Syria and Turkiye.
Referring to the complexities surrounding the resumption of relations between Ankara and Damascus, Seyyed-Afghahi stressed that the presence of Türkiye in a parts of the Syrian territory is a major problem.