“The news on the summoning is a lie,” Mehr News Agency quoted the informed source at the Iranian Foreign Ministry as saying on Friday.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said earlier Bikdeli was summoned over reports linking the execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia to last week’s visit to Riyadh by Erdogan.
The Iranian source denied the allegation. “The Iranian ambassador, on his own request and in order to outline Iran's positions and the current developments in this regard, had asked the Turkish Foreign Ministry for a meeting."
