IRNA Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Thursday that if news reports about Egypt's withdrawal from a US-led Arab NATO initiative come true, Iran would welcome Cairo's decision. Speakingto IRNA political correspondent, Qasemi said that the report carried by some news agencies has not been officially confirmed yet and Iran is ...

Sputnik - The news comes just one day after the Egyptian presidents visit to the White House. Egypt has decided to withdraw from US-led initiative to create a strategic alliance with key Arab allies, known as Middle East Security Alliance (MESA), Reuters reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Also known as "Arab NATO," the ...

RT - While the US envisages a new military alliance as a tool to counter potential threats from Iran towards the Gulf monarchies and the Middle East, there are a number of obstacles in the way of creating an Arab military bloc. According toDefense News, an Arab NATO would consist of six Gulf states, i.e. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,...

Alwaght - Six Arab countriesEgypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwaitare holding military exercises hosted by Egypt. Started on November 3, the three-week military drills, codenamed Arab Shield-1 bring together the six countries air forces, navies, and ground forces, as well as the special forces. Lebanon and Morocco also ...

News Week | Seyed Hossein Mousavian: With the stated aim of containing Irans malign behavior and bringing stability to the region, the Trump administration has proposed a collective security pact tentatively known as the Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA). The MESA would bring about the six countries from the Perdian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Mohammad-Mahdi Mazaheri: Along with humiliations that he occasionally directs towards Arab countries, US President Donald Trump has provided these countries with plans and ideas to instill in them the urge that they have to give their petrodollars to the United States to protect them and, of course, confront US enemies. The formation ...

Alwaght - In 2016, the Wall Street Journal, reported that the US will support an Arabic plan to initiate Arab NATO, aimed at confronting what they call the growing Iran influence in the region. calls for the initiative renewed on Friday, when US Secretary of State Mike Pompeohosted a meeting of top Arab diplomats in New York to push forward the plan ...

Press TV - The United States hosted a meeting of top Arab diplomats in New York on Fridayto push forward a plan to establish a NATO-like regional alliance to confront Iran. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with foreign ministers from Egypt and Jordan as well as six Persian Gulf Arab countries,including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,...

Reuters | Maysam Behravesh: The first round of whatU.S. President Donald Trump calledthe most biting sanctions ever imposed against Tehran went into effect on August 7. Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States, Trump continued, in a tweet posted that morning. An even more damaging second round of U.S. sanctions ...

Tehran Times - Professor of political science says the "Arab world" today is a patchwork of competing countries and forming an enduring alliance among the Arab states of the Persian Gulf is an illusory idea concocted by the U.S. The United States is quietly pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with six Persian ...

Alwaght - Security pacts are the most common type of cooperation between the allied countries worldwide that are mainly based on mutual interests in areas like security and military cooperation and a common perception of threats and challenges. The US is one of the parties that is engaged in security agreements with several other countries and ...

MNA Research assistant professor in Qatar University believes that the US plan to form Arab NATO aims not only to curb Iran but also to displace Russia and China from regions strategic weaponry market. The United States is quietly pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with six Persian Gulf Arab states,...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman scorned the US idea of creating an Arab NATO, saying there is no similarity between the conditions that led to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the current status of relations among Arab countries. In comments at a press conference in Tehran on Monday, Bahram Qassemi said it would ...

Press TV - As tensions between Iran and the United States continue to heighten under Americas hawkish President Donald Trump, latest reports have indicated that Trump's administration has been quietly pushing ahead with a plan to create a NATO-like security and political alliance between Arab countries to confront Iran. The purported security and ...

Tasnim The Trump administration is quietly pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with six Persian Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, to contain Irans growing influence in the region, a report said. The White House wants to see deeper cooperation between the countries on missile defense, military training, counter-...

IFP - An Iranian lawmaker says the Arab Coalition Summit recently held in Riyadh was aimed at forming an Arab NATO and pursuing the goals of the US in the region. Iranian MP Seyyed Mohammad-Javad Abtahi says the goal of this meeting was to form an Arab NATO, but it should be noted that the objectives of such coalitions have never been ...

Sputnik - Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammad bin Salman is likely to have invited Russia to work with the emerging Saudi-led military alliance in the Middle East during his visit to Moscow, political analyst Gevorg Mirzayan wrote for Sputnik. "It is an open secret that Riyadh is trying toset upa regional bloc tocounter ...

Sputnik - Washington's plans aimed at creating a Saudi-led military alliance in the Middle East are unlikely to be implemented, political commentator and expert on Syria Husnu Mahalli told Sputnik Turkey. "This project, if carried out, would lead toconfusion sincesome forces would be targeted againstthe others. Libya is a fine example. Libya is ...

Tasnim Tehran's Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami slammed the idea of creating an "Arab NATO" military alliance, which has been proposed by US President Donald Trump, saying the members of the alliance would be only servants of the US. Addressing a huge gathering of worshippers here in Tehran on Friday, Khatami pointed to ...

Sputnik - US President Donald Trump clinched multibillion dollar arms deals with Saudi Arabia because the two countries share economic and military objectives such as the creation of an "Arab NATO" to take care of regional conflicts, Theodore Karasik, a senior advisor at Gulf State Analytics, told Radio Sputnik. Donald Trump received a warm ...