(MNA) -- On Saturday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry sent a communiqué to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran in which it strongly objected to the recent allegations of U.S. Undersecretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns. The Swiss embassy hosts the U.S. Interests Section in Iran. The communiqué said that the Islamic Republic of Iran vehemently rejects and objects to the false, irresponsible, and baseless statements of Nicholas Burns which were meant to tarnish the reputation of the Islamic Republic of Iran and undermine Iran’s foreign policy, national security, and bilateral ties with Argentina. Iran maintains its legal right under international law and national statute law to counter such actions that violate the United Nations Charter and other international regulations and expects the United States government to stop violating the rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a sovereign state and undermining its national security and international interests and to take immediate action to compensate for the wrongs it has committed in the past, the communiqué added.
In a separate message to the Swiss Embassy, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has requested that a meeting be arranged between a representative from the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad and the five Iranian diplomats who have been detained since being arrested by U.S. forces in Irbil, northern Iraq on January 11.
