Iran flatly rejects statement by Persian Gulf Arab leaders as 'unconstructive’

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh late on Wednesday strongly condemned an anti-Tehran communiqué issued at the end of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council summit, stressing the Islamic Republic will allow no meddling in its internal affairs, including its peaceful nuclear program.

Iran rejects ‘interventionist’ remarks by Arab League, (P)GCC

TEHRAN - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has strongly rejected “interventionist and irresponsible” remarks by officials of the Arab League and the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council.

Qatar urges Arab states to start talks with Iran

TEHRAN – Qatar has called on the Persian Gulf’s Arab states to seize on the momentum of reconciliation drive in the region and patch up their differences with Iran.

Qatar says PGCC’s Iran stance not reflecting position of members

TEHRAN - Mutlaq bin Majed al-Qahtani, a senior Qatari Foreign Ministry official, has said that the latest anti-Iran stance of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council does not reflect the position of member states.

Tehran advises PGCC not to obey U.S.

TEHRAN - Presidential chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi said on Tuesday that the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council should not obey the United States whose presence in the region has brought nothing except instability.

Global arms industry not to heed PGCC’s anti-Iran remarks: expert

TEHRAN - International affairs expert Sabah Zanganeh has said that the world’s arms industry will not heed the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council’s call for extending arms embargo on Iran.

Tehran calls PGCC’s anti-Iran statement irresponsible

Foreign Ministry says the council has turned into a ‘mouthpiece for anti-Iran elements’

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi late on Sunday denounced an anti-Iran statement issued by the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) as “irresponsible” and said the council has turned “into a mouthpiece for anti-Iran elements”.

By staff and agency

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council calls for extension of Iran arms embargo: Bloomberg

In a report published by Bloomberg on Sunday, it is said that the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council has called on the United Nations Security Council to extend an arms embargo against Iran.

Iran advises PGCC to focus on the need to stop attacks on Yemenis

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has urged the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) to focus on stopping the Saudi-led coalition’s attacks on Yemenis instead of leveling accusations against Iran.

By Fatemeh Salehi

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council and its internal crises

The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council nowadays, instead of focusing on ‘cooperation’, has turned into a hotbed of tension among Arab countries.

Mousavi calls PGCC remarks on Iran’s decision to reduce JCPOA commitments a ‘historic joke’

Foreign Ministry to PGCC: Statement on Iranian islands is insult to national sovereignty  

Iran's military is making strides into twenty-first century technology: National Interest

Whereas (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council states spend lavishly on high-end, off-the-shelf, U.S.-built platforms, decades of sanctions and post-revolutionary strategic decisions to be militarily self-sufficient has led the Islamic Republic to focus more on its own indigenous industries.

Riyadh continues to sow division among Muslim, regional states, Iran regrets

Iran: Arab League statement doesn’t reflect the real stance of all members 

TEHRAN – Tehran has condemned a statement issued by the heads of certain Arab states at the end of an emergency meeting in the holy city of Mecca, rejecting the “unfounded” accusations raised against Iran in the statement.

PGCC starts increasing security patrols in Persian Gulf

TEHRAN – Countries member the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council have started patrolling in the region amid the U.S. escalation of tensions with Tehran.

By Javad Heirannia

PGCC might survive in name only: Chicago professor

TEHRAN – Robert R. Bianchi, a Professor at the University of Chicago, believes that “Nowadays, China and Russia are acquiring greater influence in Iran and the Persian Gulf nations so it is natural that Doha and Muscat are inviting them to balance the destabilizing consequences of American and Saudi policies.”

By Javad Heirannia

PGCC was never effective organization: Shireen Hunter

TEHRAN - Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, tells the Tehran Times that “the PGCC was never an effective organization. Certainly, it has been an unequal partnership in the sense that Saudi Arabia has dominated the Organization.”

By Javad Heirannia

PGCC with excesses of MBS doomed to trash heap of history: Askari

TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes that the PGCC has always been a Saudi ‘thing’ with a number of countries simply hanging on.

Tehran says Saudi Arabia, UAE have monopolized PGCC

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday indirectly slammed Saudi Arabia and the UAE for turning the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council into a body to express their own views.

PGCC is neither ‘council’ nor ‘cooperation’: advisor

TEHRAN – Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy advisor to the parliament speaker, has said that neither “council” nor “cooperation” has remained from the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council.