This is the second time the Russian envoy to Tehran is being summoned over the identical concern.
Tehran, Iran – Iran has as soon as extra summoned the Russian envoy to Tehran after Moscow signed one other joint assertion with Arab nations calling for negotiations over three disputed islands that the United Arab Emirates claims as its personal.
The Russian envoy was summoned to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to obtain Tehran’s “strong protest” over the assertion, the state-run IRNA information web site mentioned late on Saturday.
At the Foreign Ministry, the Russian envoy was reportedly instructed that respect for the territorial integrity of countries is a basic tenet in relations between any two nations. IRNA additionally mentioned the official was instructed the three disputed islands “forever belong to Iran” which renders any outdoors claims unacceptable.
The islands within the strategic Strait of Hormuz, particularly the Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa, have been ruled by Iran since 1971 when its navy took management of them after British troops withdrew from what’s at this time the UAE.
The UAE claims them as a part of its territory as properly and has lately acquired rising help on them from Russia and China, which Tehran additionally counts amongst its allies.
Iran had summoned the Chinese envoy to Tehran over an analogous joint assertion with Arab nations of the area in December 2022 and had additionally summoned the Russian ambassador in July over an nearly an identical joint assertion.
Russia’s joint assertion this week, signed throughout the sixth version of the Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum in Morocco, supported “peaceful solutions and initiatives aiming to resolve the conflict through bilateral negotiations or the International Court of Justice, according to international law and the UN Charter”.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, had condemned it earlier this week, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian raised the difficulty together with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, who had led the delegation to Morocco.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry mentioned Lavrov instructed Amirabdollahian that Russia has all the time revered Iran’s territorial integrity and “this official policy by Moscow must never be doubted”.
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The joint assertion additionally irked some Iranian lawmakers, who took to social media to attempt to make it clear that the difficulty is non-negotiable.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, wrote on X, previously generally known as Twitter, that more and more warming ties with Russia are primarily based on mutual respect and any claims that threaten Iran’s territorial integrity will likely be met with a “serious response”.
“Russia must be careful about the West taking advantage of its mistakes,” he wrote.
Ghalibaf additionally identified that Iran has not remained idle on the islands, and has been endeavor quite a lot of efforts to populate and develop them. He promised that the parliament would legally again efforts to develop the islands.
Other lawmakers had harsher phrases for each Moscow and Abu Dhabi.
“It looks like the language of kindness must change, at least with the UAE,” Hadi Beiginejad wrote on X.
Another MP, Ebrahim Rezaei, mentioned “if they suggest negotiations, then we also invite the Russians to negotiate with Japan over the Kuril Islands”, in reference to a dispute over 4 islands between Russia and Japan.
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