TEHRAN - Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the chairman of the Expediency Council, has said that a “secure Iran” will help boost stability and security in the Mideast region.

He made the remarks during a meeting with some laborers in Tehran on Sunday.

He also stated that Iran is willing to interact with the world in line with its stated policy to expand ties and cooperation with other countries.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Rafsanjani stated that a nuclear agreement between Iran and the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) is “reachable”

He also condemned Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes against Yemen and stated that the country has chosen a “wrong path” and planted the “seed of enmity and hatred” in the Yemeni people’s heart.

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