DHAKA: Despite denials from Iran, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed that he will be visiting Tehran for the first time since 2012.

Speaking during a meeting with a delegation of Polish journalists in Ramallah, Abbas on Sunday said, ‘There will be a visit to Iran, but no date has been set’, reports The Jerusalem Post.

Abbas said that Iran ‘is a neighboring, sister country. Our relations with it were not good, but we have an embassy in Tehran, and therefore it recognizes us’.

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