Iranian Foreign Ministry calls posts about Samarkand 'an address to the US' after Tashkent's note of protest
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei commented on the diplomatic incident surrounding publications by Iranian embassies about Samarkand: according to him, the posts were addressed to the American side. On October 23, Tashkent handed Iran's ambassador a note of protest and demanded the removal of the publications — they were subsequently deleted.
Aziz Karimov