Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has described the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf as inseparable territory of the country.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian charge d’affaires to convey the strong protest of the Islamic Republic over Russia’s repeated support for claims on Iran’s trio Persian Gulf islands.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that Iran's three islands in the Persian Gulf are eternal parts of the country's territory. He made the comments in reaction to a recent statement by the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at a session in Riyadh about the Iranian islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb. Even ...