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April 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Sunday that Iran fully monitors the developments in the region, and calls on South Sudan to immediately and unconditionally pull back its forces and return to its territory behind the designated borders.
The senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official also urged South Sudan to respect Sudan’s territorial integrity, and pursue the implementation of the agreements of June 29 and July 31, 2011, on the establishment of a demilitarized and internationally monitored border area, as well as the cooperation and non-aggression agreement of February 10, 2012.
Mehmanparast also invited both countries to exercise restraint and prepare the ground for a settlement of their disputes through negotiation.
He stressed that the removal of the tensions between South Sudan and Sudan does not have a military solution, and that Tehran endorses a political resolution of the tensions.
On April 11, troops from South Sudan captured the town of Heglig. Both sides claim the area, but Sudan operates Heglig’s oil facilities.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said a day later that South Sudan’s military forces had advanced past Heglig after occupying it.
He also rejected calls to withdraw forces from the contested oil-rich town and even stated that his country’s military would also re-enter another disputed area, Abyei.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, in return, accused South Sudan of “choosing the path of war.”
“War is not in the interest of either South Sudan or Sudan, but unfortunately, our brothers in the South are thinking neither of the interests of Sudan or of South Sudan,” Bashir told reporters in Khartoum.
The United Nations Security Council has demanded “a complete, immediate and unconditional end to all fighting” between Sudan and South Sudan.
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