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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Maziar Motamedi

Iran summons Russia’s envoy again over islands dispute

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, seen here speaking at an event in Moscow earleir this month, led the Russian delegation to Morocco and signed the joint statement [Yuri Kochetkov/Pool via AP]

Tehran, Iran – Iran has once more summoned the Russian envoy to Tehran after Moscow signed another joint statement with Arab nations calling for negotiations over three disputed islands that the United Arab Emirates claims as its own.

The Russian envoy was summoned to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to receive Tehran’s “strong protest” over the statement, the state-run IRNA news website said late on Saturday.

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