Iran’s Rouhani Condemns Foreign Powers’ Meddling in Regional Affairs

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani urged the regional states to keep vigilant against the divisive plots of foreign powers, and cautioned that lack of unity among the regional nations paves the ground for foreign powers’ interference in the region.
“When there are conflicts and problems, foreign elements come to the region and use all sides of the conflict to their benefit, which is bad for the region,” Rouhani said during a meeting with Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah in Tehran on Sunday.

The Iranian new president called for strong ties between all regional countries to stop wars, conflicts and violence.

The Kuwaiti minister was in Iran to take part in the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president.

The swearing-in ceremony of Rouhani kicked off in the capital, Tehran, at 16:00 local time (1130 GMT) on Sunday in the presence of senior Iranian state and military officials as well as foreign dignitaries.

Iran and Kuwait have sought to expand bilateral ties through exchanging several high-ranking delegations in the last few years.

Earlier this year, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sabah al-Khalid al-Hamad in a meeting underlined the need for further expansion of relations and mutual cooperation between the two countries, specially in parliamentary fields.

They made the remarks in a meeting on the sidelines of the 11th ministerial meeting of the Asian Cooperation Dialogue in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe.

The Iranian and Kuwaiti foreign ministers explored the avenues for bolstering and reinvigoration of bilateral relations.

Salehi termed Iran-Kuwait relations as satisfactory, but meantime demanded the further exchange of high-ranking delegations as well as continued interactions between Iranian and Kuwaiti authorities.

The Kuwaiti foreign minister, for his part, described Iran as a major and influential player in the Middle-East region.

Sabah al-Khalid al-Hamad noted that the relations between Iran and Kuwait are based on mutual understanding, interaction and cooperation.