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Strong ties only way to expel outsiders from Mideast
Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri Kani said stronger bonds and ties among the neighboring states are the only way to expel foreigners from the Middle East region.
Baqeri Kani made the remarks in a joint press conference with Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi, who arrived in Tehran on Monday to express his country’s solidarity with Iran following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a helicopter crash last week, Press TV reported.
“Today, we are consolidating friendly and fraternal relations and promoting multilateral ties with our neighbors,” Baqeri Kani said.
Baqeri noted that foreign policy had a special position in the doctrine of Raisi’s administration which included the expansion of political ties with the neighboring countries and enhanced trade cooperation.
The Omani foreign minister, for his part, said he exchanged views with Baqeri Kani on issues of common interest concerning the region, particularly Israel’s massacre and destruction in Gaza.
Jordan seeks ‘amicable’ relations
with Iran
Jordan’s Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II said Jordan seeks amicable relations with Iran.
In an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya, the crown prince said that Jordan, along with all Arab countries, seeks amicable relations with Iran, based on the principle of good unneighborly relations and non-intervention in the affairs of other countries.
Last week, Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of foreign Affairs Ayman al-Safadi in a phone conversation with Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri conveyed the Jordanian king’s condolences to the Iranian Leader on the deaths of Iran’s president and foreign minister and their companions in a tragic helicopter incident.