TEHRAN – Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, in separate messages on Tuesday to the Chairman of Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and Chairman of Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko, denounced the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Ankara.

He sympathized with the Russian government and nation over death of Ambassador Andrey Karlov, ISNA reported.

This heinous act of terror once again revealed that terrorism is a threat to all the nations irrespective of their ethnicity, culture, religion and geography, Larijani wrote.

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