Iran: Tehran seeks to form new West Asia regional bloc


Issue 1119 - 04 Feb 2021 | 1 minute read

Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on 26 January that Tehran was seeking to form a new six-county “co-operation union” in the West Asia region. He made the comments in Moscow, on the second leg of a regional tour which started in Azerbaijan, where he held talks with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, and which will see him continue on to Georgia, Armenia and Turkey.

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