Iran denies cutting ties with the UAE

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10-10-2012 | 05:25
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Iran denies cutting ties with the UAE
Iranian Foreign Ministry denied on Wednesday recent media reports claiming that Iran might cut ties with the UAE.  

The ministry added that “the alleged remarks attributed to the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ramin Mehman-Parast, which were quoted by the media about such a warning are ‘fabricated’”.

Earlier, Iranian media quoted Mehman-Parast as saying that Iran will either cut or reduce ties with the UAE if it repeats demanding the three islands of the Greater Tunb.  

The three islands of Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunb sit near oil shipping channels at the mouth of the strategic Strait of Hormuz and are claimed by both Iran and the UAE.

The 41-year-old dispute between Shi'ite Iran and the Sunni UAE has nationalist and ethnic overtones and has been inflamed in recent months after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Abu Musa in April.


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