TEHRAN (Tasnim) – President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday expressed Iran’s readiness to provide neighboring Turkey with disaster relief after an earthquake struck the Turkish city of Izmir. In a message to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Rouhani expressed deep sympathy with the neighboring country over the deaths and injuries in the quake that struck Turkey’s Aegean city of Izmir on Friday. He also voiced the Iranian government’s readiness to provide whatever assistance and disaster relief necessary for the people of Turkey, hoping that calm would return to the quake-stricken regions immediately.