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| Tehran dismisses anti-Iran Arab claims |
| 2011-12-22 |
| [Iran Press TV] The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed ... Tut tut, my good man!... the Persian Gulf Arab states' repeated allegations against Tehran of intervention in the countries. In a statement on Tuesday, the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ... the Medes and the Persians are very sensitive on the subject of the Persian Gulf, which the Arabs refer to as the Arabian Gulf... ([P]GCC)'s member states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Soddy Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates again accused Iran of interfering in their internal affairs. "The statement referred to fabricated and baseless allegations made by US officials," Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Wednesday. He said that the claims "while null and void, indicate the unilateral stances of some of the council's member states." The official denounced the council's statement as in contradiction with the spirit of the Islamic Theocratic Republicof Iran's relations with these countries. He noted that Tehran values goodwill, mutual respect, and avoidance of intervention in other countries' internal affairs and said the country considers these the fundamental elements of its foreign policy. Mehmanparast as well renewed Iran's call on Arab regimes to meet their people's legitimate demands in condemnation of the violent suppression of popular protests underway in Bahrain, Soddy Arabia, Yemen, and Egypt. "Violent confrontations and military crackdowns of nations will not only do nothing to help [relieve] the problems in these countries, but also will spread instability and insecurity across the region," he warned. Mehmanparast also dismissed the Arab states' alleged concerns about Iran's nuclear program, insisting that the Islamic Theocratic Republic's nuclear activities were peaceful, transparent, and within the limitations imposed by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The Iranian front man was responding to a call by the [P]GCC on Tehran to "fully cooperate" with the IAEA. The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program and have used this pretext to push for the imposition of sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republicas well as to call for a military attack on the country. Iran, however, maintains that, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the IAEA, it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. The IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities, but has never found any evidence of diversion in Iran's civilian nuclear program. His comments came following recent developments in which Iran announced that its military has downed a US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft, which had violated Iran's airspace and the Islamic Theocratic Republic's capture of a CIA agent, who was on a mission to infiltrate the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Thus of course .... * IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > HAMAS CALLS FOR CREATION OF [armed = al-Quds = pro-Iran?] ARMY FOR LIBERATION OF PALESTINE. TEHRAN TO ARABS = "HMMMMM, HMMMM, WELL, ITS THE HOLIDAYS - JUST PUT HAMAS = PALEOS OUT OF YOUR MIND UNTIL AFTER JANUARY"!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-12-22 20:04 |