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Nasir Abdul Mohsen Abdullah Taki of Iraq, Sigvald Tomin Hauge of Norway and Jesper Vahr of Denmark handed over copies of their credentials to the Iranian foreign minister.

Meanwhile, the outgoing Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia Tarek Bettaieb also met with Zarif to bid farewell at the end of his mission in Iran.

IRNA and iranpress.com contributed to this story.

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Ecuador’s Ambassador in Tehran German Alejandro Ortega Almeida, Slovak Ambassador Lubomir Golian, and Norwegian Ambassador to Iran Lars Nordrum bid farewell to Zarif in separate meetings as their tenures have ended in Iran, Mehr News Agency (MNA) reported.

Meanwhile, new Spanish Ambassador Luis Felipe Fernández de la Peña and Portuguese َAmbassador Carlos Rico Antonio da Costa Neves submitted a copy of their credentials to the Iranian foreign minister and explored avenues to broaden mutual cooperation with them.

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The ambassador of Afghanistan to Tehran was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday morning to provide an explanation for a series of recent moves against Iranian embassy in Afghanistan.

It came after the moves by a small group of certain political currents with a record of opposition to the Islamic Republic of Iran and to the good neighborliness between Iran and Afghanistan.

The groups recently made a series of insulting moves and violated the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Embassy and other missions in Afghanistan under the pretext that a number of Afghan nationals who had plans for illegal entry into Iran or had entered Iran illegally with the help of traffickers have died.

In the Saturday meeting in Tehran, Director General of West Asia of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed concern about the impact of the wrong measures by that small group on the neighborly relations between Iran and Afghanistan.

A few days ago, a group of demonstrators gathered outside the Iranian Embassy in Kabul in protest at what they called mistreatment of Afghan nationals by Iran’s security forces after three Afghan migrants were killed and a number of others injured when a vehicle of human traffickers crashed in Iran’s central province of Yazd.

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During his meeting with Japanese Ambassador Mitsugu Saito, Rouhani said that investment by the two countries’ private sector is essential to strengthen economic ties.

Rouhani noted that Iran and Japan share common views on many issues.

For his part, Saito said that Japan seeks expansion of relations with Iran.

Ambassador Saito said that Japanese companies will continue cooperation with Iran in spite of the U.S. sanctions.

‘Iran ready to boost cooperation with European Union’

In his meeting with Veronique Petit, the new ambassador of Belgium, Rouhani said that Iran is ready to expand political and economic relations with the EU states, especially Belgium.

He noted that there is no impediment to closer ties.

The Belgian ambassador, for her part, called the 2015 nuclear deal a “great success” at the international arena.

The EU has been making any efforts to preserve the JCPOA, said Ambassador Petit whose country is the capital of the European Union.

‘Iran, Qatar are determined to expand ties’

During his meeting with new Qatari Ambassador Mohammed Hamad Saad al-Fahid al-Hajeri, Rouhani said that Tehran and Doha are determined to expand ties.

He noted that closer ties between the two countries are beneficial to the whole region.

The Qatari diplomat said that Doha seeks to expand relations with Iran in line with interests of the two countries.

In a separate meetings with Senegalese Ambassador Amadou Sow, the president said that Iranian companies are ready to expand activities in Senegal.

The Senegalese diplomat welcomed expansion of ties.

Samir Veladzic, the new ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Rouhani also called or closer ties between the two countries.

Rouhani calls South Africa a ‘close friend’

In his meeting with Vika Mazwi Khumalo, the new South African ambassador, Rouhani said that Iran considers South Africa a “close friend”.

He noted that the two countries have good capacities to expand relations.

For his part, the South African diplomat called for expansion of relations, especially in economic area.

The Iranian president also discussed expansion of relations with the new Dutch Ambassador Jacques Louis Werner.

Rouhani told the Dutch envoy that the nuclear deal should be preserved after the U.S. unilateral withdrawal from the international agreement.

In the talks with Ambassador Louis Werner, whose country is home to the United Nations’ top court, Rouhani said, “I hope ruling of the International Court of Justice would change the U.S. administration’s illegal behavior, especially on the issue of inhuman sanctions.”

The ICJ ordered the U.S. on October 3 to lift sanctions on “humanitarian” goods to Iran.

ICJ unanimously ruled that Washington “shall remove by means of its choosing any impediments arising from the measures announced on May 8 to the free exportation to Iran of medicines and medical devices, food and agricultural commodities” as well as airplane parts, said judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf.

Five new Iranian ambassadors to foreign countries meet Rouhani

Rouhani also held a meeting with new Iranian ambassadors to Spain, Kuwait, Romania, Bangladesh and Sierra Leone.

He called on the ambassadors to make any efforts in line with expanding relations with other countries.

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