Arab League–Iran relations Guards. On 4 January 2016, Bahrain severed diplomatic relations with Iran, citing Iran's "blatant and dangerous interference" in Bahrain and other Arab countries. This directly followed Saudi Arabia's dissolution of diplomatic ties with Iran. In 2014 AFP reported Libyan and Iranian embassy in Moroni, Comoros, had problems about registering their claim to the property in the capital Moroni, because Comoros gave one property to both country for building their embassies . In January, 2016, Comoros recalled ambassador from Iran for expressing cooperation and solidarity with Saudi Arabia and censured Tehran for what it called interference in the internal affairs of
Iran of the Iranians, surrounding themselves with a culture that was distinctively Iranian. By the 1500s, Ismail I of Ardabil established the Safavid Empire, with his capital at Tabriz. Beginning with Azerbaijan, he subsequently extended his authority over all of the Iranian territories, and established an intermittent Iranian hegemony over the vast relative regions, reasserting the Iranian identity within large parts of Greater Iran. Iran was predominantly Sunni, but Ismail instigated a forced conversion to the Shia branch of Islam, spreading throughout the Safavid territories in the Caucasus, Iran, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. As a result, thereof, modern-day Iran is the only