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–Turkey relations and Smyrna in western Anatolia. Igdir Province in what is Eastern Anatolia formed in fact part of Qajar Iran up to the outcome of the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828) and the ratified Treaty of Turkmenchay. Various empires based in what is now Turkey made inroads into what is now Iran, such as by the Byzantine Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. Iran's second major ethnic group is Azerbaijani which is a Turkic people, there also other Turkic peoples in Iran such as Turkmens and Qashqai people. Turks and Iranians share a common cultural heritage, known as the Turko-Persian tradition, which was a