Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kan'ani says that the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) is not in a position to comment on Iran's trio islands.

The spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry has welcomed a statement issued by the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in support of an agreement on restoration of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which were severed over the past seven years. Kanaani expressed hope that the recent agreement reached between Tehran and Riyadh to restore ties would ...

The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) foreign ministers stressed the peaceful resolution of their differences with Iran. The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) in its 155th periodic meeting at the level of foreign ministers held in Riyadh, emphasized in their final statement the continuation of joint action by the member states ...

Iran has reacted to the final communique of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC), saying the statement is an "unrealistic" result of Saudi pressure on other members of the council. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh made the announcement on Thursday, saying, Communique of the meeting, like the previous ones, lacks a realistic understating ...

IRNA - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message stressed the fact that the US is so desperate to show its anti-Iran struggles by clinging to a personal position of Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) secretary-general. "US is so desperate to show support for its struggle to illegally extend arms restrictions on Iran that it clings ...

IRNA - Iran's Chief of Staff of Presidential Office Mahmoud Vaezi on Tuesday said that the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) must not follow the United States as the presence of the country in the region is illegitimate and brings insecurity and instability. The diplomat made the remarks on Twitter in reaction to the statement of the Persian ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Fatemeh Salehi: The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council nowadays, instead of focusing on cooperation, has turned into a hotbed of tension among Arab countries. The Council has so far failed to settle any disputes among its member states, the most important example of which is the crisis in Qatar which involves the four Arab ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson dismissed a statement issued by the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council that has raised allegations against Iran, and flatly rejected the councils baseless claims on the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf In remarks on Wednesday, Seyed Abbas Mousavi dismissed the statement issued at the 40th summit ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi confirmed that President Hassan Rouhani has sent separate letters to the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) Member States and Iraq. Asked by journalists about the reports of Rouhanis letters to heads of the PGCC Member States and Iraq, Mousavi confirmed the reports on Saturday, saying,...

FNA - The six members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) have different views on Washington's confrontation against Iran, a Kuwaiti paper reported on Sunday. The Arabic-language al-Qabas newspaper referred to the May 18 meeting of Arab leaders in Mecca at the invitation of Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz with the aim of adopting a single ...

FNA - Figures show that Iran's total government spending on defense seems insignificant compared to the huge military budget of the US and Middle Eastern countries. Iran has allocated 3.2% of its budget in the current Iranian year (March 21, 2018 to March 21, 2019) to military spending. This is while the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) ...

MNA The European Union is working on organizing a conference that could help solve the crisis among member states of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC), Romanian foreign minister Teodor-Viorel Mele?canu said on Saturday. Addressing the annual Doha Forum, Mele?canu said Romania will take rotating presidency of the Council of the ...

Press TV - Qatars foreign minister has calledthe Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)a toothless organization incapable of holding its members to account. "They have mechanisms in place and never trigger them because some countries believe they are non-binding, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told the annual Doha Forum dialogue platform ...

MNA 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. But now it is rapidly becoming more a Saudi-Emirati thing. Qatar and Oman are on the outs and I believe ...

MNA 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. The PGCC was also created as a response to the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution ...

IRNA - The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry pointing out that Kuwaiti Emir's approach in recent years was largely benevolent says if this approach is accepted and operated instead of without content statements of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) secretariat, there is lower cost to the region's nations. In response to parts of ...

Alwaght - Despite serious political division between Saudi Arabia and Qatar that so far led to cutting off bilateral diplomatic relations and imposing an all-out blockade on Doha by a Saudi-led Arab bloc last year, Yesterday Riyadh officially invited Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council summit set for ...

MNA The Qatari emir and the Sultan of Oman will not join Persian Gulf summit to be held in Saudi Arabia today. Qatari Emir Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani will not be in the 39th Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) summit in Saudi Arabia and only state ministers will represent Qatar in this meeting, an official, who asked not to be named,...

IRNA Secretary General of Persian Gulf Cooperation Council Abdullatif Al Zayani on Friday described Iran as a major regional neighbor, saying that PGCC members are keen on forging constructive ties with it. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, he added that relations with Iran, especially reinstatement of sanctions by the US, as well ...

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 ...