Turkey should understand benefits of interaction: Zarif

EghtesadOnline: Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hoped Turkey and the other neighbors understood the benefits of collaboration and interaction and considered the realities.

News ID: ۷۴۰۰۲۰

26 February 2017

“We believe our region needs to cooperation and convergence of all regional countries in fighting against terrorism. Extremism is no benefit for anyone. Fueling sectarian perspectives and issues is in interest of no one. Our region needs cooperation,” Zarif said.

“Domination is not acceptable in this region and the results of this attempt are nothing less than killing and the cost. We had a good experience in cooperation among Iran, Russia, and Turkey over Syrian crisis. I hope Turkey and the other neighbors understand the benefits of collaboration and interaction and consider the realities. They should realize that Iran is benevolent of all of its neighbors,” ISNA quoted him as saying.

About the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iranian high diplomat said: “international community has resisted against some of rhetoric and stressed on the implementation of JCPOA”.

“These movements from US have never had any benefit for Americans and the whole world has insisted that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has fought against terrorists and Isis,”Zarif said referring to US administration’s proposal to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.