Reuters - Iran has rejected as unrealistic a call by the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) for the United Nations to extend an international arms embargo on Tehran that ends in October, state TV reported on Monday. The PGCC, made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, said on Sunday that Irans continued ...

NPR | Bilal Y. Saab & Michael P. Mulroy: To help prevent a U.S.-Iran war in their neighborhood, the countries of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council have called for diplomacy. They have reached out to Iranian officials to de-escalate. And they have provided Tehran with humanitarian assistance to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. That is remarkable ...

Bloomberg |Netty Idayu Ismail: Bahrain and Oman may have missed a golden opportunity to lock in cheap foreign financing. Ever since tensions between Iran and its Arab neighbors began boiling over this month, the countries bonds have been leading losses across the six-nationPersian Gulf Cooperation Council. The sell-off is unwinding gains that pushed ...

Gulf Business| Erika Masako Welch: In January this year, senior diplomats from around the world formally announced the lifting of sanctions against Iran. In principle this put a definitive end to 37 years of various degrees of sanctions imposed on the country. Boardrooms of global Fortune 500 companies and regional conglomerates alike have been ...

Tehran, March 6,The Iran Project Labeling Hezbollah as terrorist group is a strategic mistake, a high ranking official at Iranian Armed Forces made remarks, stressing that Hezbollah has been Islams reputation and honor in past years. According to IRGC Public Relations Department, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, Chief of Staff of Iranian Armed ...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the decision of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Persian Gulf to designate the Hezbollah militant group a terrorist organization. TEHRAN (Sputnik) Iran has condemned the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Persian Gulf (GCC) for its decision to designate the Hezbollah militant ...

Obamas about to expedite a slew of new weapons sales at the Camp David summit. Why isnt Israel freaking out? the absence of a major announcement on a security pact or missile defense shield, this weeks summit between the United States and six Persian Gulf countries is likely to fall back on a time-honored tradition: a series of expedited arms transfers ...

Obama's biggest challenge is convincing the Gulf countries that Iran is not a threat. Feeling isolatedand left in the dark, the Gulf countries have for months maintained that a nuclear deal with Iran should only be pursued if it would not destabilise the region. Many in the Gulf believe Tehran may attempt to extend its regional influence once a ...

The United States and its Gulf allies will try to agree on new security measures at a summit in Washington next week to guard against destabilizing actions by Iran in the region, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday. The West hopes to secure a nuclear deal with Tehran by an end-of-June deadline and this has stirred anxiety among Washington's ...

Gulf Arab leaders meeting on Monday were expected to announce closer political union, starting with two or three countries including Saudi Arabiaand Bahrain. According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will weigh closer political union at a summit of Gulf Arab leaders on Monday aimed at pooling efforts to neutralize Shi'ite Muslim protests in ...

Irans assertiveness as a regional power and its increasingly active role in major regional crises, has caused considerable alarm with the Gulf monarchies, who stepped up their effort to create a Gulf Union. Meanwhile the growing antagonism between the two is fraught with considerable risks for the stability of the region. At the recent two-...

(Reuters) - Iran rejected accusations from Gulf Arab states that it was meddling in their affairs, saying those countries were "running away from reality", an Iranian news agency reported on Wednesday. Six U.S.-allied states demanded Iran end what they called interference in the region, in a statement on Tuesday at the end of a two-day summit of the ...

By UPI ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 1 (UPI) --As tensions swell in the Persian Gulf, the United States is pressing its fractious Arab allies to accelerate efforts to establish an integrated missile defense network to counter the threat of Iran's growing ballistic arsenal. That would add considerable weight to U.S. anti-missile defenses ...

Iranian officials condemned baseless claims made by the United Arab Emirates over the three Iranian islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb. Foreign ministers from the six [Persian]Gulf Cooperation Council nations held an emergency meeting Tuesday in Qatarto discuss Ahmadinejads visit last week to Abu Musa, one of three Persian Gulf islands ...

Iranian people will condemn US plan to annex Bahrain to Saudi Arabia and express their anger against the lackey regimes of Al-Khalifa and Al-Saud after this week's Friday prayers. During the 14th Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) summit that concluded in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Monday, leaders of GCC members, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,...