Iran’s Embassy in London on Wednesday evening strongly reacted to a British deputy foreign secretary’s un-thoughtful remarks on status of 3 Iranian islands in Persian Gulf. According to IRNA, following the publication of remarks by British Deputy Foreign Secretary Ivan Lewis during a House of Commons discussion in which he had defended the UAE’s unfunded claims on Iranian islands of the Greater Tunb, the Lesser Tunb and Abu Moussa, as well as his incomplete pronunciation of the sacred name of Persian Gulf, our country’s embassy forwarded a protest message to the British Foreign Ministry condemning the British diplomat’s antagonist approach towards Iran’s most legitimate national interests.
In the protest letter, referring to the discussions made at the British House of Commons over the three Iranian islands, it is stressed that the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf are inseparable parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran, while Britain’s stands are obvious interference in Iran’s legitimate rule over its homeland and intrigue a third party to violate our nation’s territorial integrity, and are therefore totally null and void.