http://iranpress.com/iran: In the meeting, Zarif welcomed the new ambassador and wished him success during his tenure in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
After 2019 Warsaw Conference, commonly known as the US-led Middle East conference in Warsaw on 13 and 14 February 2019, Iran criticized Poland policy.
In January Iran’s foreign ministry summoned a senior Polish diplomat to protest at Poland jointly hosting a global summit with the US focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran, IRNA reported.
An Iranian foreign ministry official told Poland’s charge d’affaires in Tehran that Iran saw the decision to host the meeting as a “hostile act against Iran” and warned that Tehran could reciprocate.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized Poland for hosting the meeting and wrote on Twitter: “Polish Govt can’t wash the shame: while Iran saved Poles in WWII, it now hosts desperate anti-Iran circus.”
Zarif was referring to Iran hosting more than 100,000 Polish refugees during the Second World War.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that a two-day conference being co-hosted by US and Poland in Warsaw on Iran and the larger Middle East was “dead on arrival”.
After the failed meeting, The Polish Foreign Ministry in a reconciliatory tone in a statement appreciated Iran’s aids, saying the country will never forget the supports and sympathies offered by Iran to Polish WWII refugees.
The Polish deputy foreign minister, Maciej Przemys?aw's visit Tehran following Iran's protest to Poland due to Warsaw's co-hosting of an anti-Iranian conference organized by the US, which is to be held on 13 and 14 February.
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