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EghtesadOnline: Qatar ’s top diplomat says his country needs strong relations with regional countries, including Iran, to ensure its national interests, noting that close ties between Doha and Tehran have nothing to do with an ongoing bitter dispute between Qatar and some of its Arab neighbors.

EghtesadOnline: Iran traded 27.4 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $13.84 billion with six Persian Gulf nations, namely Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar , Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, during the first seven months of the current fiscal (March 21-Oct. 22) to register a 19.92% and 10.96% growth in tonnage and value respectively compared with last year’s corresponding period.