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Iranian President's Aide: UK behavior vis-a-vis Iran unacceptable

Iran Materials 19 February 2011 11:41 (UTC +04:00)
London 's behavior toward Tehran is unacceptable, a senior aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Ali Akbar Javanfekr said, Press TV reported with the reference to Kuwait News Agency.
Iranian President's Aide: UK behavior vis-a-vis Iran unacceptable

London 's behavior toward Tehran is unacceptable, a senior aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Ali Akbar Javanfekr said, Press TV reported with the reference to Kuwait News Agency.

"The British government's behavior toward Iran has been unacceptable in recent years, so much so that London has been blatantly meddling in our internal affairs. Moreover, Britain's engagement with Iran is outside the framework of diplomatic relations between the two countries," Javanfekr told.

He then touched upon London's intention to replace British Ambassador to Iran Simon Gass as well as the straining relations between the two countries and called for severance of ties with the UK.

"Britain's interference in Iran reached such an extent that any other government, if they were in Iran's shoes, would have changed their relations with London. However, Iran showed tolerance, so that British officials might come to the understanding that it would not be in their interest to continue their behavior," he said.

On Sunday, Feb.13 Iranian MP, Hussein Ibrahimi stated that the British ambassador to Iran Simon Gass's entry to the country is banned.

Iranian Parliamentary Commission on National Security and Foreign Policy approved a bill that requires a complete rupture of relations, including political, cultural and economic ones with the UK on Dec. 19.

The Commission's decision came after Gass recently assessed the situation with human rights in Iran on the British Embassy website. "The lawyers, journalists, NGO members experience such pressure nowhere in the world as in Iran," the ambassador said. He also drew attention to numerous cases of arrests of human rights defenders in Iran.

Simon Gass was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, where the inadmissibility of interfering in the internal affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran was pointed out to him.

A group of Iranian politicians of the conservative camp demanded the immediate expulsion of the diplomat from the country, who allowed "insulting and demeaning attacks" against the Islamic Republic of Iran, threatening the relations between the two countries.

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