Abbas Mousavi | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:22:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico Abbas Mousavi | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 We are in contact with President Buhari over El-Zakzaky – Iran https://www.insideojodu.com/we-are-in-contact-with-president-buhari-over-el-zakzaky-iran/ https://www.insideojodu.com/we-are-in-contact-with-president-buhari-over-el-zakzaky-iran/#respond Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:22:01 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=9320 Abbas Mousavi, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said the country constantly pursues the…

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Abbas Mousavi, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said the country constantly pursues the case of Nigeria’s top Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky through diplomatic contacts with the Nigerian government in line with efforts to help improve his health.

Abbas Mousavi told reporters in Tehran on Sunday that President Buhari and Iranian Vice President for Economic Affairs, Mohammad Nahavandian recently met in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on a range of issues, including Zakzaky’s case.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 5th Summit of Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Equatorial Guinea. “We hope that the consultations and arrangements that are being made will expedite the settlement of this issue, the Iranian official said.

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Iran FM says ‘had no choice’ but to build missiles https://www.insideojodu.com/iran-fm-says-had-no-choice-but-to-build-missiles/ https://www.insideojodu.com/iran-fm-says-had-no-choice-but-to-build-missiles/#respond Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:00:06 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=5883 The foreign minister of Iran said on Wednesday that his country must manufacture missiles…

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The foreign minister of Iran said on Wednesday that his country must manufacture missiles for defensive purposes, days after he appeared to suggest the weapons could be up for negotiations.

In a tweet on Wednesday, Javad Zarif said that Iran’s missile program grew out of the 1980-1988 war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

“For 8 YEARS, Saddam showered our cities with missiles & bombs provided by East & West,” Zarif wrote. “Meanwhile, NO ONE sold Iran any means of defense. We had no choice but building our own. Now they complain.”

“Instead of skirting the issue, US must end arms sales to Saddam’s reincarnations,” Zarif also said.

In an interview with NBC News that aired earlier this week, Zarif said that if the U.S. wants to discuss Iran’s missile development, it needs “first to stop selling all these weapons, including missiles, to our region.”

Iran has long rejected negotiations over its ballistic missile program, which remains under the control of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The foreign minister’s comments seemed to suggest an opening for talks amid high tensions between Tehran and Washington. But the Iranian mission to the United Nations promptly called Zarif’s suggestion purely “hypothetical” and said the Iranian missiles were “absolutely and under no condition negotiable with anyone or any country, period.”

Abbas Mousavi, a spokesman for the country’s Foreign Ministry, tweeted late on Tuesday that Zarif’s remarks were meant to challenge Washington and “threw the ball into the U.S. court while challenging America’s arm sales” to its Middle Eastern allies.

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