Press TV - Qatars Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has turned down an invitation by Saudi Arabia to attend the annual meeting of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh. The official QatarNews Agency(QNA) reported on Tuesday that Sheikh Tamim had named Prime Minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani to lead the Qatari delegation ...

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 ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   PGCC should take Kuwait approach, avoid nonsense: Spox The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry pointing out that Kuwaiti Emirs approach in recent years was largely benevolent says if this approach is accepted and operated instead of without content statements of the Persian ...

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 - The 39th summit of the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council started in Riyadh on Sunday, putting an end to speculations about whether the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani who was invited by the Saudi king will participate. He finally did not join the gathering and send a lower level delegation to the Saudi capital. Since June ...

Tasnim A Persian Gulf Arab summit called for regional unity as Bahrain and Qatar traded barbs over the Qatari emirs decision not to attend the gathering in Saudi Arabia on Sunday in a sign that a row between Doha and its neighbors is still festering. Qatar sent its state minister for foreign affairs to the annual one-day summit, which was overshadowed ...

MNA Iranian Parliament Speaker Special Aide on International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council enjoys neither cooperation not council. In a Sunday tweet, he wrote, Neither council nor cooperation remains from the PGCC; #Bahrain in legitimacy deficit, Saudis in #Khashoggi scandal & Riyadh&...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia says it is not sending back two of its former senior officials to Turkey, which seeks to arrest them on suspicion of planning the October murder of a renowned Saudi dissident journalist. "We don't extradite our citizens," Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference at the annual [Persian] Gulf Cooperation ...

MNA King Salman of Saudi Arabia delivered an inaugurating hostile speech against Iran at the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council PGCC summit underway in Riyadh. During the inaugurating speech at the 39th PGCC Summit in Riyadh today, King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia was ranting and raving against Iran. The Saudi King reiterated baseless ...