Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he has accepted a request by his British counterpart William Hague based on the Islamic Republic™s policy of rapprochement.
In an interview with the Arabic language TV channel ˜Al-Mayadeen™, Zarif said the British foreign secretary has requested to meet on the sidelines of this year™s UN General Assembly in New York, which œI have accepted, because Iran™s policy is based on bilateral cooperation and respectful rapprochement.”
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting will take place in New York later in September.
The UK government, in close collaboration with the U.S. regime, has imposed several sanction resolutions against Iran at the UN Security Council – where the two Western countries enjoy an imperial veto power – over the Islamic Republic™s peaceful nuclear energy program.
London™s anti-Iranian policies have a long history, which goes back to the very days of the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979.
Since the revolution that toppled the Iranian regime under Reza Pahlavi (known as shah), who enjoyed the U.S. and Britain™s backing, the London government has been conspiring against the government of Iran.
London unilaterally severed its diplomatic ties with Tehran in 2011 after an incident involving some self-organized group of people, who attacked the British embassy building in Tehran and caused some minor damages to the building itself. Hague ordered Iranian diplomats in London to leave and closed the embassy in the aftermath of that incident. At the time, the Iranian government explained that it had nothing to do with the incident. The whole issue happened as the people™s reaction to Britain™s imperialistic policies against the Iranian nation and its government.
Meanwhile, Zarif had said earlier that what is important after any meeting with London is its output and the output depends on the other side™s behaviour.
œWe do not have any problem with such a meeting, but what is important is its output,™ Zarif was reported by the Fars News Agency to have told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
Asked about a possible thaw in Iran-UK relations, Zarif had replied: œThis depends on the other side™s behaviour”.
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