Iran is officially protesting to Russia over the use of the fake name of Persian Gulf

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that Iran officially protested the use of the fake name about the Persian Gulf in the official account of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the social networking site Twitter."

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman added that an official protest note was submitted to the Russian Foreign Ministry through the Iranian embassy in Moscow, according to the official Iranian news agency (IRNA).

And the Russian Foreign Ministry's Arabic account on Twitter had mentioned in a tweet, last Saturday, that the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and Iraq's ambassador to Moscow, Abd al-Rahman Hamid al-Husseini, discussed regional issues, including the Palestinian settlement and the situation in Syria and the Arab Gulf region. It is the description that Iran protested.

On the other hand, the head of the Iranian Shura Council, Muhammad Baqir Qalibaf, met, on Monday, with the speaker of the Russian House of Representatives, Vyacheslav Volodin, in Moscow, and delivered a letter from the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Qalibaf said that Khamenei's message comes within the framework of the strategic relations between the two countries. Qalibaf referred to the leader's affirmation of developing and deepening Iranian-Russian relations and expanding the structure of bilateral cooperation, according to IRNA.