Turkey’s top diplomat on Thursday called for dialogue to the crisis in Iran, rocked by mass protests which rights group say have left thousands dead and which prompted US warnings to Tehran.
“We absolutely want problems to be resolved through dialogue,” Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told journalists in Istanbul. “Hopefully, the United States and Iran will resolve this issue among themselves — whether through mediators, other actors, or direct dialogue. We are closely following these developments.”
“We’re against a military operation against Iran. We believe the authentic problems of Iran should be resolved by themselves,” he said, adding that Iran’s economic grievances were “misunderstood as an uprising against” the Islamic republic. (AFP)
