Iran works to establish good relations with Arab states

Speaker of the Iranian Shoura council Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri said he appreciates Syria's national pan-Arab and Islamic position.

In a pre-departure press-conference in Kuwait following a three-day official visit, Nouri said: "Relations with the Arab countries and the Gulf states in particular I have so far visited have become good."

He added that one of the main objectives of the Iranian gesture is to make sure that Iran does not represent a danger to anybody in the region and that "Iran works to establish brotherly relations on the basis of mutual respect and interests."

Nouri a statement he made on Wednesday in Kuwait he called on Arab and Islamic countries to follow Syria's example in confronting plans and plots being hatched against Arab and Islamic states and warned against the dangers the Turkish - Israeli alliance presents to the region

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