Iranian president confers with Tunisia prime minister
Tunisia-Iran, Politics, 4/23/2001

The Iranian President Ali Khameani has asserted during his meeting with the Tunisian prime minister Muhammad al-Ghanoushe on Sunday the need of making use of the common issues at the political and religious sides between his country and Tunisia with the objective to maintain further support to their bilateral relations.

The Iranian President noted that the united identity of the Islamic world and the attempts made by the West to limit the reliance of the Islamic world on its own potentials. He stressed that " countries of the region own the elements and the potentials necessary and can be used to serve the interests of the Muslim peoples ." He asserted that realizing this matter " depends on the interest of the countries of the region to Islam and to respond to the components of the Islamic renaissance ," noting the attempts made by " Zionists to maintain political and economic control on the Islamic world ," expressing his appreciation for the Tunisian " step in closing the Israeli office."

Al-Ghanoushe said that " the best means by what the Islamic world can withstand impeding onslaughts is to consolidate relations among the Muslim states. explaining that " the Zionist entity is one of these onslaughts to the Islamic world and that confronting this entity is of political and economic dimensions ."

Al-Ghanoushe, who is the highest Tunisian official to visit Iran since the victory of the Iranian revolution in 1979, had signed with the Iranian side several agreements and memorandum of understanding to support their trade relations whose volume in the year 2000 reached USD 73 million.

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