The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the joint statement issued from the U.S.-PGCC foreign ministers meeting in Manama, Bahrain on Thursday. In a statement released on Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran rejected the positions contained in the joint declaration by the U.S. and the PGCC, stressing that the Islamic Republic of Iran considers them “interventionist, irresponsible and provocative,” and warned against the continuation of such policies in the region, reported Tasnim.
The ministry’s statement dismissed Washington’s claim of a “sustained commitment to the security of PGCC member states” as “nothing more than rhetoric and distortion of reality,” arguing that the US military presence in the region has instead become “a burden on the peoples of the region and a source of insecurity and division.”
Iran also urged the regional states whose territory and facilities were used during the recent imposed war by US-Israeli aggressors to reconsider their positions, while reiterating the “clear obligation” of PGCC members under international law and the principle of good neighborliness to prevent any third party from using their territory or facilities for unlawful actions, including military aggression against Iran.
The Foreign Ministry also expressed “disgust” at the repetition of a “big lie fabricated by the genocidal Zionist regime and the United States” regarding Iran’s nuclear program, urging PGCC states to avoid aligning with Washington’s “threat narrative” and instead join Iran in advancing the initiative for a West Asia free of nuclear weapons, while compelling the US to stop obstructing it.
