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
Counties of Iran Counties of Iran The counties of Iran, called shahrestan ( ), are administrative divisions of larger provinces ("ostan"). The word "shahrestan" comes from the Persian words ' ("city, town") and ' ("province, state"). "County", therefore, is a near equivalent to "shahrestan". Iranian counties are divided into one or more (), or districts. A typical county includes both cities ( ) and rural agglomerations ( ), which are groupings of adjacent villages. One city within the county serves as the capital of that county. Each county is governed by an office known as "farmandari", which coordinates different public events and agencies