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No plan for closer ties with Iran: MOFA

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday denied knowledge of plans by Iran to explore the possibility of opening a representative office and branches of its banks in Taipei.

"The ministry never heard of it. We will try to find out where the news came from," ministry spokeswoman Phoebe Yeh (葉非比) said. "Taiwan has civilian economic and trade contacts with Iran and the Bureau of Foreign Trade has personnel in Iran. That's all the contact we have with Iran."

The ministry was responding to a report in German magazine Der Spiegel, which said Iran was mulling opening an economic and cultural representative office as well as banks in Taiwan.
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