TEHRAN (Tasnim) � Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif highlighted the significant role that the country�s nationals residing in the foreign countries play in promoting the Iranian and Islamic values.

Speaking at a gathering of Iranians living in Sweden, in Stockholm on Wednesday, Zarif described the Iranian expatriates as the country�s �best ambassadors� all around the world.

Iran owes a great deal to its nationals in foreign countries for �preserving the Iranian identity�, he added.

�Dialogue of civilizations has always taken place via people that could build an understating bridge between two cultures by believing in their own culture and getting to know a new one,� Zarif added.

Travelling with a big delegation of Iranian businessmen, Foreign Minister Zarif travelled to Sweden as part of a European tour, which took him earlier to Poland and Finland.

The trip comes against a backdrop of international enthusiasm for enhanced ties with Iran after Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) on July 14, 2015 reached the agreement on Iran�s peaceful nuclear program and started implementing it on January 16.

By Tasnim News Agency