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Iran ready to improve ties with Gulf countries: Rouhani



DUBAI: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said Iran is ready to ‘work with all its neighbors’ to secure peace in the Middle East, reports said.

His views come at a time when Iran and Saudi Arabia have been fighting proxy wars for years.

Observers has taken this move as an ‘attempt to weaken ties’ between Saudi Arabia and the US.

In a speech telecast live on state TV, Rouhani said his country is ready to work with all regional states to ‘preserve security’ in the Middle East, agencies have said.

“Iran wants to establish brotherly ties with all countries of the region,” newspapers quoted him as saying. (Agencies)

Publish Date : 17 February 2019 20:41 PM

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