Irans foreign ministry spokesman has strongly rejected baseless and repetitive allegations in the final statement of the latest meeting of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), noting that the council has been taken hostage by "a raucous minority" of its member states.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Saeed Khatibzadeh dismissed the councils ...
Press TV - The United States says countries of the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council have started patrolling in the region amid the US escalation of tensions with Tehran.
The "enhanced security patrols" began on Saturday, said the Bahrain-based 5th fleet of the US naval forces central command in a statement on Facebook Sunday.
It added that ...
SHANA - The severance of diplomatic ties between Qatar and a Saudi-led alliance of Arab governments has given rise to the worst diplomatic crisis in the Arab world since the establishment of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in 1981.
The tension between the Persian Gulf Arab states has engulfed the entire region. In addition to leading some other countries ...
December 12, The Iran Project A number of Iranian parliamentarians developed a plan to downgradediplomatic relations with Britain and submitted it to theMajlis board of directors.
Following British Prime Minister Theresa Mays meddlesome remarks at the summit of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, Irans parliament (Majlis) developed a plan to ...
Press TV- British Prime Minister Theresa May has called for deeper military cooperation with members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council.
Addressing the GCCs annual summit in the Bahraini capital Manama on Wednesday, May said Britain planned to invest more than $3.7 billion in the region over the next decade.
As part of the renewed relationship ...
There have been interesting developments this week in US-Russian relations with the Gulf states, Egypt, and Turkey - and also interesting developments in the political discourse of both Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
The strategic dialogue between the United States and Egypt resumed earlier this week, for the first time since 2009, tackling ...
The Qatari emir says the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC) backs a possible final deal between Iran and the P5+1 group over the Islamic Republics nuclear program.
The [US] president spoke about the agreement with Iran and I am here to say that the [P]GCC welcomes this agreement, said Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in a joint press conference ...
[caption id="attachment_156345" align="alignright" width="188"] A general view of the meeting of leaders during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Doha, Qatar, on December 9, 2014. (AFP Photo/STR)[/caption]
State held the 134th session of the GCC Ministerial Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The kingdoms Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince ...
[caption id="attachment_155599" align="alignright" width="199"] The United States and its allies are ratcheting up their military presence in the Persian Gulf as the final weeks wind down before the deadline for a framework agreement on Irans nuclear program.[/caption]
The United States and its allies are ratcheting up their military presence in ...
[caption id="attachment_154558" align="alignright" width="184"] US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Salman at Diriyah Farm in Diriyah, March 5, 2015. Kerry met Gulf Arab foreign ministers in Riyadh to brief them on progress in the nuclear talks with Iran and offer reassurance that any deal would not damage ...
[caption id="attachment_151315" align="alignright" width="194"] A common security policy among the states of the Gulf Cooperation CouncilBahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirateswas not considered at the initial stage. In fact, it came in the form of ad hoc responses to regional challenges. (Photo: Karim Jaafar / AFP-...
[caption id="attachment_105704" align="alignright" width="159"] A view of Irans Bushehr nuclear power plant (file photo)[/caption]
ABU DHABI // The UAE and other GCC countries have repeated their call for Iran to join international conventions and treaties on nuclear safety, after Irans nuclear chief said Tehran was ready to sign nuclear safety pacts ...
Muscat:The largest exhibition that Iran has ever held in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region will open at the Oman International Exhibition Centre in Muscat on Tuesday.
"Around 100 companies will be participating in the exhibition, and this is the first time that such an exhibition is being held with the participation of companies from all over ...
Foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met here Monday evening to discuss key regional issues including Iran's nuclear program, the Syrian crisis and the ongoing reconciliation initiatives between Qatar and other member states.
It was not immediately known whether the proposal to transform the GCC into a union was also ...
The US secretary of defense has called on the Persian Gulf Arab states to close ranks against the Islamic Republic.
Chuck Hagel, who was addressing defense ministers from the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Jeddah on Wednesday, claimed that Iran poses threats to the region.
The most pressing security challenges threaten this region as ...
Kuwait City, Kuwait -Iran topped the final communique of the Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC)summit in Kuwait, with delegates payingparticular attention to Tehrans recent landmark nuclear agreement with world powers as they wrapped up the final day of the meeting.
The GCC, which includes Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait,...
KUWAIT, Dec 10 (KUNA) -- The draft final communique of the 34th GCC summit includes a host of issues like relations with Iran and its nuclear program, the situations in Syria and Egypt, as well as the Middle East peace process, a senior Kuwaiti official said Tuesday.
The draft final communique includes a "positive indication for the relations with ...
Americas friends in the Gulf are a little less pro-West these days.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates were all poised for a United
States military strike on Syria after its apparent use of chemical weapons last month. But as the prospect for a military strike seems to be receding, US popularity is going along with it.
Both ...
Saudi Arabia said Monday it will outlaw the dissemination of information on the Internet for the benefit of "terrorist" groups, in line with a decision taken by Gulf Arab monarchies.
The official SPA news agency said the cabinet approved the "unified legislation against cybercrime," which the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) adopted in December.
The ...
SANAA, June 8 (KUNA) -- GCC Secretary General Abdulatif Al-Zayani has condemned the Iranian interference in Yemen, calling for the respect of the choices and aspirations of the Yemeni people.
Al-Zayani, during a meeting with Yemeni President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi in Sanaa Saturday, said aspirations of the Yemeni people should be respected as he ...
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