TEHRAN (IRNA) – Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said here Friday that the claim that the three islands (Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb) belong to Emirates is sheer lies and contradicts the historical documents.

They belong to Iran and will remain Iranian forever, he underlined.
Addressing the third day of Iranian Expatriates Conference, he pointed out that some are attempting the ownership status of the islands by issuing a statement or propaganda but they will prove futile.
It amounts to interfering in Iran’s internal affairs and the country will never allow a change in its integral territory, he said.
Touching on Iran’s share in the Caspian Sea, Qashqavi said that the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) drew an imaginary line between Hossein Qolikhan Bay and Astara and considered Iran’s share below the line, that’s to say 11.8 percent. Iran does not accept the imposed line and such a share, he said, stressing that Iran’s share in the Caspian Sea is one fifth.
“We will never forgo Caspian rights,” he underlined.
Elsewhere in his speech, the spokesman rejected contradiction between nationality and religion, describing it as a Zionist plot.
There is no foreign policy without ideology in the world and efforts to do away with Islam in maintaining Iran’s national interests and security will undermine its national power, he said.
Commenting on West’s attitude towards human rights in Iran, he said that no country can claim that it completely observes human rights norms in the case of its nation.
“Naturally, we do not have such a claim but we have problems with some so-called human rights advocates in three fields,” Qashqavi noted.
First is that they abuse human rights to impose their demands on the third world countries in other fields such as nuclear technology, he said, adding that the second is that the West has adopted a double-standard policy regarding human rights.
The westerners imagine that their history and human rights basics are absolute values and other countries should abide by them.
Qashqavi also maintained that reviewing the qualifications of candidates is completely legal and based on Islamic laws.