Comoros President Ikililou Dhoinine addresses
the United Nations General Assembly
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Moroni (Comoros) (AFP) --- Indian Ocean archipelago and Saudi Arabia
ally the Comoros said it had cut diplomatic relations with Iran over
what it termed Tehran's "aggression" towards Riyadh.
A foreign ministry statement said the Comoros viewed Tehran as
"interfering" in "the internal affairs of certain
countries" and "not respecting diplomatic conventions".
Comoros'
foreign ministry said it had called on the Iranian ambassador to
clear his desk.
The move came a week after the Comoros, a member of the Arab League,
recalled its own ambassador from Tehran judging that Iran has created
a climate of "gratuitous aggression" towards Riyadh.
Relations between majority Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia dived
after the January 2 ransacking of the Saudi embassy in Tehran and the
Saudi consulate in Mashhad, Iran's second city.
The ransacking came amid anger over Riyadh's execution of Nimr
al-Nimr, a prominent cleric from the kingdom's Shiite minority.
Following
the execution Riyadh severed diplomatic relations with Tehran.
Several
Arab countries followed suit and severed or reduced relations with
Iran.
"One
cannot violate with impunity the sovereignty of diplomatic missions,"
the Comoros foreign ministry director general Ahamada Hamadi told
AFP, referring to the ransacking.
The
three islands of Anjouan, Grand Comore and Moheli that make up the
Comoros have a total population of just under 800,000 people, nearly
all of whom are Sunni Muslims.
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