TEHRAN – In a tweet on Monday, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his congratulations on the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ (PBUH), wishing that this occasion would “usher peace and joy to all in 2019”.

“The angels said, ‘Mary, God gives you good tidings of a Word from Him whose name is Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary; high honored shall he be in this world and the next, near stationed to God.’ (QURAN 2:45),” Zarif tweeted.

“May the blessings of the birth of Jesus usher peace and joy to all in 2019,” he added.

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