Iran’s Foreign Ministry Trying to Calm Tensions with Morocco

The spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Marzieh Afkham, announced last Sunday, in a statement echoed by PressTV Iarn willingness to improve its relations with Rabat. Ms. Afkham added that Iran and Morocco are trying to boost their political and economic cooperation and commercial exchanges.

A media outlet that goes in the direction of easing tensions between the two countries after the controversy that accompanied the arrival of the new Iranian ambassador in Rabat. The latter had only his credentials to the Iranian news agency Fars News Agency, close to the Revolutionary Guards, accused in an article, Morocco being the executor of the policy of Israel in the Muslim world . Rabat qualified this statement unacceptable and asked the Iranian authorities to explain and to take measures by convening the newly appointed ambassador.

Iran had appointed Mr. Mohammad Taqi Moayyed, who previously served as ambassador to Tunisia, the Netherlands and Greece, as new ambassador of its country in Morocco. The Kingdom has not yet appointed an ambassador in Iran. But officials have announced that he was about to be named.

the relations between Tehran and Rabat have started to deteriorate in 2009, after several disagreements on questions of regional policy. The hardest wing of the Iranian regime does not want standardization, trying to undermine the process.