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Iran expects nothing from Turkey; we do not need that country, Mohammad Hasan Asfari, a member of IRI Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said, the Iranian site Irdiplomacy.ir reports.

Referring to the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statement addressed to Iran, the Iranian MP said, “The minimum that I expect from the Foreign Ministry of Iran is the Ambassador of Turkey’s expulsion from the country. Until the government of Turkey has apologized to the people of Iran, the Ambassador’s expulsion will make it possible to prevent Erdogan’s visit to Iran.”

“Iran does not need Turkey; they have nothing to help us, on the contrary, it is we who make exports to Turkey in some fields, and if we stop that Turkey will face serious problems,” the member of IRI Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said.

In response to Erdogan’s statement, Mansour Haghighatpour, the deputy president of the IRI Majlis for Security and Foreign Policy Affairs, has recently declared, “Recep Pasha, intervening in the interior affairs of the countries of the region, has participated in 130,000 innocent people’s massacre in Syria. I think Erdogan just cannot visit Iran in current state of affairs.”

Earlier, due to the absence of the Ambassador of Turkey, Turkey's chargé d'affaires in Tehran, Baris Saygin, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry of Iran where the IRI Foreign Minister’s deputy for Asia and Oceania affairs informed him about the complaints of the Iranian side and expressed regret concerning Erdogan’s statement. The Iranian side demanded Turkey’s clear and convincing comments on Erdogan’s statements.

According to Iranian site Irdiplomacy.ir, in an interview to the TV channel France 24, the president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in response to the question whether Turkey is concerned about the growing role of Iran in the region (Syria, Iraq, Yemen), had said, “No doubt, Iran wants to take control over the whole region. This is certainly not a positive development. We have discussed Syria and Iraq with them [the Iranians]; still, we have not noted a positive move yet. As for the Islamic State, Iran’s actions are not sincere in that matter. Iran tries to take control over the territories which are under ISIS’s possession and take actions at the background of Shia-Sunni split.”

As the Iranian Fars News Agency reports, IRI Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in answer to the above-mentioned statement of the President of Turkey, said, “Those who have suffered irreversible losses as a result of their strategic mistakes and ambitious politics had better contribute to the stability of the region with responsible policy.”