Iran`s Foreign Minister: No Need for Saudi Panic

  21 January 2016    Read: 744
Iran`s Foreign Minister: No Need for Saudi Panic
Iran`s foreign minister says his country does not want a confrontation with Saudi Arabia, and there`s "no need" for Saudi Arabia to panic about recent heightened tensions.
Mohammad Javad Zarif said Wednesday that Iran`s Saudi neighbors "need to realize confrontation is in the interest of nobody."

He said he was asked to break relations with Saudi Arabia as tensions mounted between their governments following an arson attack earlier this month on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. But Zari said, "I refused." He did not say who had asked him.

Zarif, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, urged regional cooperation to combat Islamic State extremists.

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