Mar 11, 2007, 12:55 GMT
Tehran - Iran on Sunday said it was waiting for the results of Turkish investigations on the missing Iranian military adviser and former general Ali Reza Asghari, who according to media speculation may have defected to the West after travelling to Turkey last month.
'We are mainly waiting for information by official sources and primarily on investigation results by Turkish police and intelligence service,' Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said in a press conference in Tehran.
He refrained to comment on press reports that the general has sought asylum in the West saying that 'press reports are not dependable.'
Pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat had last Tuesday quoted high-profile sources as saying that Asghari left for the United States shortly after arriving in Istanbul.
Flying from Damascus, Askari arrived in Istanbul on February 7, but disappeared only a few hours after checking into an Iranian-owned hotel.
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