"The foreign ministry's deputy director general for Western Europe summoned (UK envoy) Hopton on Saturday to convey the strong protest of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the undigested statements made by that country's prime minister," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said today.
Addressing a Persian Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Bahrain on Wednesday, May claimed that "we must... work together to push back against Iran's aggressive regional actions".
Qassemi noted that the foreign ministry official told Hopton that the "irresponsible, provocative and divisive statements by Ms. Theresa May in that meeting are unacceptable and doomed and it is strongly expected that such unacceptable statements are not made in future".
The Iranian diplomat also told the British ambassador that "such moves run counter to the stated expansion of ties and will further damage the two countries' relations."
"The regional policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is based on establishing peace, stability and security on the basis of campaign against terrorism, while some regional countries are clearly pursuing the policy of supporting terrorism and this reality has been ignored by the British officials and you premier, which is a source of regret and surprise," Qassemi quoted the Iranian diplomat as telling Hopton.
Britain reopened its embassy in Tehran in August 2015 as a sign of improvement of mutual ties between the two countries after hundreds of Iranian students staged a protest outside the embassy in 2011, censuring the expansion of UK sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Tehran and London have now restored their diplomatic relations to ambassadorial level.
[farsnews.com]
10/12/16
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