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Saudi Arabia is on the wrong path: Iran
TEHRAN, April 10 (MNA) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said that Saudi Arabia chose a wrong path when it decided to dispatch troops to Bahrain to quell the popular uprising in the country.
Salehi made the remarks during a joint press conference with Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Leonardo Almagro Lemes in Tehran on Saturday.
“Saudi Arabia is following the wrong path and its action will have severe consequences,” he stated.
Salehi said, “It has been announced that the troops were dispatched to Bahrain at the request of Bahrain and under the Peninsula Shield security pact. But according to the information we have, (the signatories to the pact) can militarily intervene in another (Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member) country only when it is under military attack.”
“Did (Bahrain) regard the popular protests as a foreign invasion and thus ask for Saudi Arabia’s help?”
In 1984, the PGCC decided to create a joint military force called the Peninsula Shield Force. The Peninsula Shield Force is intended to deter and respond to military aggression against any of the PGCC member countries, namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Salehi added, “When I took the post of foreign minister, I announced that my first priority was to establish strong ties with Saudi Arabia, and I made the utmost efforts in this regard, but the response we received was irrational and ill-considered.”
However, Iran is still ready to develop strong ties with this country, and “we hope that Saudi Arabia will leave Bahrain’s soil as soon as possible and will not complicate the situation further,” he stated.
The Uruguayan foreign minister also condemned the foreign military intervention in Bahrain.
Production of centrifuge parts in Iran nothing new
Salehi also commented on the MKO members’ claims about the discovery of a factory producing centrifuge components located in Tehran Province near the border with Alborz Province, west of the city of Tehran.
“The components required by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran are being manufactured in different parts of the country,” he stated.
The factory in question is also not a hidden facility and reporters have even visited it, Salehi added.
Salehi made the remarks during a joint press conference with Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Leonardo Almagro Lemes in Tehran on Saturday.
“Saudi Arabia is following the wrong path and its action will have severe consequences,” he stated.
Salehi said, “It has been announced that the troops were dispatched to Bahrain at the request of Bahrain and under the Peninsula Shield security pact. But according to the information we have, (the signatories to the pact) can militarily intervene in another (Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member) country only when it is under military attack.”
“Did (Bahrain) regard the popular protests as a foreign invasion and thus ask for Saudi Arabia’s help?”
In 1984, the PGCC decided to create a joint military force called the Peninsula Shield Force. The Peninsula Shield Force is intended to deter and respond to military aggression against any of the PGCC member countries, namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Salehi added, “When I took the post of foreign minister, I announced that my first priority was to establish strong ties with Saudi Arabia, and I made the utmost efforts in this regard, but the response we received was irrational and ill-considered.”
However, Iran is still ready to develop strong ties with this country, and “we hope that Saudi Arabia will leave Bahrain’s soil as soon as possible and will not complicate the situation further,” he stated.
The Uruguayan foreign minister also condemned the foreign military intervention in Bahrain.
Production of centrifuge parts in Iran nothing new
Salehi also commented on the MKO members’ claims about the discovery of a factory producing centrifuge components located in Tehran Province near the border with Alborz Province, west of the city of Tehran.
“The components required by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran are being manufactured in different parts of the country,” he stated.
The factory in question is also not a hidden facility and reporters have even visited it, Salehi added.
