Batura: “Iran is one of priority countries for Belarus

Barys Batura, chairman of the “council of the republic” of the “national assembly” of Belarus, met with the head of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran Ali Ardashir Larijani in Tehran today.

“We highly praise our friendly relations. We express hope that our friendship will strengthen the prosperity of the peoples of the two countries,” Barys Batura said.

In turn, Ali Ardashir Larijani noted the positive development of the Belarusian-Iranian cooperation in policy and economy. “Belarus is our friendly country. I am sure that the visit will give an additional impetus to development of our relations,” he told the speaker of the upper house of the Belarusian parliament.

Barys Batura also visited the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran. It should be reminded that protests demonstrations against opposition go on in Iran. They began in Tehran about a week ago, after results of the presidential elections of June 12 had been announced. According to their results, Ahmadinejad got 62.63% of the votes, his main challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi collected 33.75% of the votes. Mousavi accused the authorities of rigging the elections results.

On June 20, the eight day of the opposition protects against rigging the results of the presidential elections, the Iranian police used arms, water cannons, batons, and tar gas. Besides police, Basij militia took part in suppressing the rallies.

According to different sources, from 13 to 30 people were killed. Tehran hospitals report about hundreds of people with gun, stab and incision wounds, poisoned with gas.