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TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson quashed rumors about a comprehensive cooperation plan between Tehran and Beijing, saying the old trick of using false information to get details of the agreement will get nowhere.

In a post on his Twitter account on Tuesday, Seyed Abbas Mousavi said “Iran-China comprehensive cooperation plan” is a clear roadmap that sets the stage for relations between the two major countries in future, “when China, as the world’s top economic power in the near future, and Iran, as the great power in the West Asia region, can fulfill the common interests and stand against the pressure of bullies with complementary relations that are independent of the traditional and hegemonic Western powers.”

The spokesman underlined that the cooperation agreement between the two countries neither entails any Chinese control over the Iranian islands, nor any presence of military forces, nor the “other illusions.”

“The old trick of falsification and release of wrong information in order to get the right details and information, which is seriously pursued by the enemies of interests of the two nations, will go nowhere,” Mousavi added.

“There is no news of the transfer of Iranian islands, now the presence of the military or other illusions,” former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called these rumors an old “trick.”

There are many small islands off the coast of Iran, some of which are strategic and important for navigation of the Persian Gulf. Iran also has a free trade zone on Kish island, and Iran has a deal with India about its Chabahar port, where there is also a free trade industrial area.

Meanwhile the secretariat of Free Zones High Council in a statement refuted allegations that some parts of southern shores and Kish Island have been transferred to China.

The statement accused aliens and foreign media of spreading such fake news to ruin the relation between both states.

Meanwhile Head of Presidential Office Mahmoud Vaezi described Iran-China document as a usual agreement between the two countries, saying foreign media started sabotaging relations between Tehran and Beijing.

Elaborating on Iran-China 25-year-old agreement, Vaezi said it is a usual document signed aiming to strengthen relations.

The government has always been committed to approving whatever is necessary and also whatever is related to parliament, he said, adding that there is no secret.

Referring to confusion caused by social media for people, he said the propaganda is supported from outside the country.

Iranian constitution and regulatory bodies will spare no efforts for clarifying the issues, he noted.

Commenting on the upcoming meeting between heads of three branches of power, Vaezi said the goal has always been outside the country to create a rift between people and officials.

Earlier on Tuesday, Iranian Government spokesman Ali Rabiee said some of these suspicions are a real question of public opinion and respectable.

“We do not have a secret issue with the people that need to be answered, and it is the suspicions that have been formed in the minds of the elites and the people,” he added.

Rabiee said that the idea of a cooperation agreement with China has been gradually announced since its inception, adding, “We announced to the public when the Chinese government responded to the Iranian draft, and even when it said it was ready to negotiate.”

The government spokesman noted that the final talks are underway to reach an agreement with China, adding that the final agreement will be announced at any time.

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According To Iran News, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman warned that the recent American military moves in Iraq could escalate the regional tensions.

In a statement on Wednesday, Seyed Abbas Mousavi denounced the American military presence and moves in Iraq.

“While the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the international community are emphasizing the need for halting the tension-creating and warmongering measures amid the outbreak of coronavirus, these (US) moves are against the official and announced will of the Iraqi government, Parliament and people, would create tensions, and could steer the regional situation towards instability and catastrophic conditions,” he warned.

The Iranian spokesperson also called on the American forces to respect the Iraqi government and people’s demands for withdrawal from that country and to avoid creating tensions in the region.

His comments came against a backdrop of reports that American troops are preparing for a confrontation with Iraqi popular forces in the Arab country and that the Pentagon has been reviewing action plans for operations in the coming weeks.

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According To Iran News, Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday summoned Kuwait’s charge d’affaires over a recent anti-Iran meeting between some Kuwaiti officials and a representative of a separatist group.

The Kuwaiti charge d’affaires in Tehran went to the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday to receive Iran’s strong protest against the anti-Iran session in the Arab country which was held between Kuwaiti officials and a representative of a terrorist group that pursues separatist goals.

The Foreign Ministry reminded the Kuwaiti official that such moves show a blatant interference in the Islamic Republic’s internal affairs and are a clear violation of the amicable ties between the two neighboring countries.

The charge d’affaires was also notified that countries cannot shirk responsibility in such cases.

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On Saturday night when I was watching news channels on IRIB, I found out that Iranian scientist and Professor Dr. Masoud Soleimani , in a prisoner swap with American Xiyue Wang, was released. Wang had been charged with espionage and sentenced to 10 years in prison. These two prisoners were exchanged in Zurich, Switzerland and were delivered to officials of their countries..

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At the time of Wang’s arrest, the then Judiciary spokesman in a press conference claimed that one of the U.S.’s dual citizen who had entered in Iran with certain infiltration and been directed by the Americans, had been identified and arrested. He also said that the American infiltrator was sentenced to prison.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday and in a statement announced that Iranian scientist and professor Soleimani, after one year of illegal arrest, was released and handed over to Iranian officials in Zurich.

Dr. Soleimani, a distinguished professor at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran and hematology and stem cell researcher, was detained by the FBI on 7 October 2018 in Chicago despite having a valid one-year visa on charge charges of violating American trade sanctions against Iran.

Some Donald Trump government officials pointed to the recent riots in Iran and claimed that Iran’s regime likely decided to release Wang in order to improve its image in the international scene.

On Saturday the White House confirmed the prisoner swap between Iran and the U.S. This confirmation came after the U.S. President Trump issuing a statement and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif posted photos of himself accompanying Mr. Soleimani on Twitter.

The U.S. newspaper New York Times without revealing the names of American officials announced that Wang was flown in a Swiss government airplane from Tehran to Zurich. These senior American officials, speaking only on the condition of anonymity to discuss the delicate nature of the exchange, said they saw no indication that the exchange portended a larger dialogue with Iran. The daily did not consider the prisoner swap as a sign for more talks between Tehran and Washington.

New York Times quoted two senior United States officials as saying that Wang was flown in Zurich by a Swiss government plane where he met by Brian Hook, the U.S. State Department’s special representative for Iran.

The daily claimed it was Mr. Hook, working through Swiss intermediaries who often serve as a diplomatic channel between Washington and Tehran, who negotiated the prisoner exchange.

According to the daily, Hook has had no direct contact with Iranian officials since a March 2018 meeting in Vienna shortly before Mr. Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement.

In the past ten years, Iranian officials have had meetings with the U.S. officials which were  confined to only some certain issues and they were not  allowed to move ahead more than their defined missions. That we exchange a spy, convicted to 10 years of prison, with a scientist indicates that the winner card is still in the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and that every two months Mr. Trump thinks of his halcyon days and speaks of talks without preconditions is not either unreasonable and it itself indicates that in order to win, Mr. Trump will not be satisfied with these capacities and the Almighty wants Iranian to see Mr. Trump being humiliated.

 By: Hamid Reza Naghashian

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Mousavi offered condolences to the families of the victims and expressed sympathy with the people and government of Sri Lanka.

The spokesman also noted that the today’s criminal acts in Sri Lanka showed that ‘despicable’ terrorism has become a global problem which knows no religious, racial and geographical boundaries.

He added that the global terrorism today requires all the nations to confront it with all might and with no double standard approaches.

The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has also condemned today’s deadly terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka in a post on his Twitter account, calling for a global condemnation and fight against terrorism.

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The terrorist attack in the province of Sistan and Balouchestan killed 27 IRGC members and injured 13 others.

The IRGC personnel were traveling between the cities of Zahedan and Khash, in Sistan and Balouchestan, when their bus was targeted in a suicide car bomb attack.

The IRGC’s Quds Base said in a statement that an explosives-laden car rammed into the bus, which was taking the personnel back to their homes.

The so-called Jaish ul-Adl terrorist group has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahrain Qassemi later on Wednesday condemned the attack and expressed sympathy with the families of the martyrs and those injured.

“Resorting to such inhumane crimes by this terrorist grouplet, which is supported by some regional countries militarily, financially and ideologically, only strengthens the determination of the Iranian government and nation to continue on the path of fighting terrorism in the region,” he stated.

Qassemi also said that Iranian military and intelligence forces will certainly take revenge against those behind the attack.

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 Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said Sun. that Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Ministry need to take into account the issue of mistreatment and disrespect against Iranian tourists traveling to Georgia.

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In the statement, the Foreign Ministry called on all Yemeni parties to engage “constructively and responsibly” in the Stockholm talks and  take steps to build confidence and provide the necessary ground for reaching a comprehensive agreement that would end the suffering of the Yemeni people and the cruel blockade on the Arab country.

The ministry also pointed to Iran’s four-point peace plan for Yemen and said the Islamic Republic once again emphasizes that the Yemeni crisis has no solution other than a political one based on Yemeni-Yemeni talks.

Tehran also calls on the international community to play a more serious role in facilitating the peace process in Yemen through imposing pressures on countries exporting weapons to the Saudi-led coalition, according to the statement.

Britain’s ambassador to Yemen said Thursday he had spoken with representatives from the country’s warring sides and that he expects them to attend peace talks that are to begin this week in Stockholm.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday highlighted the effectiveness of the four-point plan he had put forward in 2015 for bringing peace to Yemen and said it “still remains the only viable option”.

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for more than three-and-a-half years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured until then. The war and the accompanying blockade have also caused famine across Yemen.

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