MOSCOW, 12 Aug. British Ambassador to Tehran Simon Sherkliffe was invited to the Iranian Foreign Ministry because of the publication of a joint photo with Russian Ambassador Levan Jagaryan, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said. Earlier, the Iranian Foreign Ministry invited Jagaryan because of the «unacceptable» publication, which caused criticism in Iranian society, but stressed the friendly nature of relations with Moscow. «Following the publication of a photograph of the recent meeting of the Russian and British ambassadors, today the adviser to the Foreign Minister, Director General of the Western Europe Department of the Foreign Ministry invited the British Ambassador, stating that this action (publication of the photograph — ed.) is unacceptable, people, «- said in a statement published on the official website of the Iranian foreign policy body. Earlier, the Russian Ambassador met with the new British Ambassador to Tehran Sherkliffe. The meeting, as noted by the Russian embassy on Twitter, took place «on the historical ladder, where the Tehran conference in 1943 was held,» at which the outlines of the post-war Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations were outlined. In response to the publication, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called the photo «extremely inappropriate.» The Russian Embassy, in turn, noted that it was not going to offend the feelings of the friendly people of Iran, and the only meaning of this photo is to pay tribute to the joint efforts of the allied states in the fight against Nazism during World War II. foreign troops on their territory. Directly during the Second World War, the presence of Soviet and British forces on Iranian territory is associated with fears of the allied countries about Iran's building up of ties with Nazi Germany, which is why they carried out an operation in August-September 1941, introducing their troops and establishing control over various parts of the country.
Russian Ambassador to Iran commented on the scandalous photo
