Moroni (Comoros) – Indian Ocean archipelago and Saudi Arabia ally the Comoros said it had cut diplomatic relations with Iran over Tehran’s “aggression” towards Riyadh AFP reported, Jan. 16th.
A foreign ministry statement said the Comoros viewed Tehran as “interfering” in “the internal affairs of certain countries” and “not respecting diplomatic conventions”.
Comoros’ foreign ministry said it had called on the Iranian ambassador to clear his desk.
The move came a week after the Comoros, a member of the Arab League, recalled its own ambassador from Tehran judging that Iran has created a climate of “gratuitous aggression” towards Riyadh.
“One cannot violate with impunity the sovereignty of diplomatic missions,” the Comoros foreign ministry director general Ahamada Hamadi told AFP, referring to the ransacking of the Saudi embassy in Tehran by Iranian regime backed mobs.
The three islands of Anjouan, Grand Comore and Moheli that make up the Comoros have a total population of just under 800,000 people, nearly all of whom are Sunni Muslims.