Ankara stands against hostile moves against Tehran

Head of the Turkish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission Volkan Bozk reiterated his country's friendly ties with Tehran, and said Ankara stands against any hostile move against Iran.Bozk made the remarks on Thursday after a meeting with the visiting Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi."We gave another assurance that Turkey will in no way stand by any action that may harm Turkey's close friend, Iran," said Bozk?r. During the closed-door meeting, Boroujerdi voiced hope that the US radar system to be stationed in the eastern province of Malatya as part of NATO's missile defense project would not be used against Iran, Turkish daily Hurriyet reported. "We know that Turkey is a member of NATO and we understand Turkey's joint actions with NATO. But we hope that the radar will not be used against Iran," parliamentary sources quoted Boroujerdi as saying. Noting that Ankara had promised to send a delegation to brief Tehran on the missile shield project, Boroujerdi reportedly said, "The delegation has not yet come. We are waiting for it." Speaking to Anatolia news agency in Tehran before his departure to Turkey, Boroujerdi said he did not expect Israel to make the "mistake" of attacking Iran. In comments on Syria, he voiced support for President Bashar al-Assad reforms initiative, and stressed that Iran was "against the US and the Zionist regime (plans to) trigger a civil war in Syria by providing arms and funds to the opposition." In a separate development yesterday, Veli Agbaba of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lodged a criminal complaint against Turkish Foreign Ministry undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu over the radar deal he signed with the US ambassador on grounds that the agreement required parliamentary approval. Tehran has long opposed the NATO missile shield deployment plan in Turkey, calling it a threat to Iran.