The Iranian news agency contradicts the Algerian agency

On instructions from President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the Algerian Foreign Minister arrived in Iran yesterday. On Saturday, he was received by Iranian President Ahmed Ataf, and held talks with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir Abdollahian. Obviously, the official communications of the two countries on this important meeting did not shine with their harmony, especially on the question of the Sahara.

The Algerian ministry confirmed that “the two ministers discussed a number of important files and topical issues, such as the crisis affecting international relations, as well as issues of decolonization, especially in Palestine and Western Sahara, in addition to the crises in Yemen, Libya and Sudan.” Several local media reports.

The inclusion of the Sahara conflict in the text was not supported by the Iranians. in a long postIn English and Arabic, dedicated to the meeting between Ahmed Ataf and Hossein Amir Abdollahian, the Iranian news agency ignored the conflict in the Western Sahara.

Ahmed Ataf’s trip to Iran comes a week after a phone call between President Tebboune and his Iranian counterpart, Ibrahim Al-Raisi. An exchange was preceded by Hussein Amir Abd Allahian’s announcement of the project to “normalize” relations between his country and Morocco.

Rabat justified severing its relations with Tehran, on May 1, 2018, by handing over Iranian weapons to the Polisario militia.