The Iran Project - A top advisor to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has criticized the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) claims of ownership over the three islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb, and the Lesser Tunb in the Persian Gulf, saying that it will "destabilize the region's security." Ali Akbar Velayati made the comments in an interview with Qatar's ...

IransIslamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)Navyhas launched drills to show its power and combat defense readiness in protecting the security of the Persian Gulf as well as the countrys islands. The exercises kicked off in Abu Musa Island on Wednesday with the presence of local authorities as well as a group of military commanders and officials, ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian condemned a recent joint statement from Russia and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council about three Iraniantrio islands, stressing that Tehran would not budge an inch when it comes to protecting its territorial integrity. Addressing a joint press conference with his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Albusaidi ...

The spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry announced that Iran has formally protested to the government of Russia about its recent joint statement with the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council regarding three Iranian trio islands. Speaking to reporters at a weekly press conference on Monday, Nasser Kanaani dismissed the contents of the joint statement ...

The chief commander of the Iranian Army says Tehran is very sensitive to claims made about its three islands in the Persian Gulf, to which the United Arab Emirates lays claims. At an event with other military commanders, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi said, We are sensitive about every iota of our soil, and we will not neglect for a ...

The chairman of the Iranian Parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Committee rapped the Russian position regarding Irans trio islands in the Persian Gulf, saying such a stance is not in the interest of bilateral relations. I would like to address our friends in Russia; our stance on the baseless and threadbare claims of the UAE regarding ...

Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador to Tehran, Alexey Dedov, following stances that supported the United Arab Emirates claims to three southern Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf Ali Reza Enayati, assistant to the Iranian foreign minister and Director General of the Persian Gulf Department at the ministry, urged the ...

The legal and definitive ownership ofGreater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa inHormozgan province has been issued in the name of the Iranian government, the Spokesman of Iran's Judiciary announced Tuesday. Speaking in a Tuesday presser, the Spokesman of Iran's Judiciary Masoud Setayeshi spoke about Iran'ssovereignty over itsthree islands of Greater ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran has discussed the baseless accusations leveled by foreign ministers of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, stressing that three islands of Bumusa, the Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb eternally belong to Iran. In reaction to the final statement of the 153rd meeting of the foreign ...

Rejecting interventionist remarks, Irans Permanent Representative to the United Nations stressed Iran's participation in promoting regional peace and security, as well as its ownership of the three islands. He made the remarks at a virtual meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday after some baseless allegations made against ...

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh slammed the United Arab Emirates for repeating baseless territorial claims by UAE's senior officials about the three islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb and the Lesser Tunb in the Persian Gulf. "Iran's sovereignty right over the Iranian islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb and the Lesser ...

Tasnim Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf islands are inseparable parts of the countrys territory. Heading a ranking military delegation, the IRGC commander traveled to a region known as Nazeat in the Persian Gulf on Wednesday. Accompanied by IRGC ...

Tasnim The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy reiterated the countrys sovereignty over its southern islands and warned that any aggression on the areas will be followed by severe consequences. Speaking on the sidelines of his visit to the Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb, and the Lesser Tunb on Friday,...

IRNA -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Monday that the UAE claims over three Iranian Persian Gulf islands are only repetition of previous nonsense claims. Qasemi made the remarks speaking during his weekly press conference when asked to comment about recent remarks by UAE state minister of foreign affairs repeating old claims about ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) dispute over the three islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and the Lesser Tunb in the Persian Gulf is not a new story. So far, Tehran has frequently announced that these islands are an inseparable part of the Iranian land and repetition of unfounded allegations over the territories ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 12 (MNA) Irans Foreign Ministry Spokesman in response to the recent Riyadh territorial claims of Irans trio islands says repeating baseless claims will have no effect on the Islamic Republic's territorial integrity. Hossein Jaberi Ansari stated that Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb and the Lesser Tunb islands are indispensable parts of the ...

Tehran, May 6, IRNA Reacting to recent statement of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) in Riyadh, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said the Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Mussa islands comprise an indispensible part of Iran's territory. 'Repeating such claims has no effect on historical facts and are null and void,' said ...

Tehran, April 25, IRNA - Commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili paid a visit to Iran's defense sites in the three Iranian Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs. He had also a visit to Pourdast Air Defense Base in Bandar Abbas port. General Esmaili during the visit praised ...

Tehran, March 31, IRNA A senior military official on Monday said rhetoric of certain reactionary countries of the region was so unfounded that they are not worth responding to. Deputy Chairman of Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri urged those regional states to avoid ridiculing themselves in the eye of the world ...

Kuala Lumpur, March 30, IRNA Iran's parliamentary delegation called the UAE claim over the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf as unfounded. The Iranian delegation, attending the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam, made the remarks on Sunday. A member of the Iranian parliamentary delegation said the UAE ...