Iran Urges Neighbors to Rethink Issue of Regional Security
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed that the only way to establish security and peace in the region is through extensive cooperation between the countries neighboring countries.
Iranian Foreign Minister hails that an opportunity has arisen for the countries of the region to renew their perspective of the issue of collective security, calling the matter an asset than cannot be either bought from abroad or guaranteed by stockpiling foreign weapons.
“Dear neighbors, an opportunity is available to us to rethink the issue of regional security,” Zarif wrote in an Arabic tweet on Thursday.
Relations among Iran and certain Persian Gulf littoral states have not been fairing well over the past several years amid Iranophobic posturing by those states, most notably Saudi Arabia and its regional allies, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
The allies began drawing themselves nearer to the US following the 2016 inauguration of former US president Donald Trump, who had likewise been trying feverishly to demonize the Islamic Republic.
The Trump administration seized on the chance to clinch gigantic arms deals with those regional states.
Tehran has, however, been invariably extending an offer of negotiations with the countries of the region and warned that the region’s troubles have to be resolved through regional consensus instead of foreign interference.
Zarif likewise asserted, “As we know, such security cannot be bought with money and achieved by accumulating weapons.”
“The only way to establish security and stability is through broad regional cooperation among the countries of the region. Iran has always emphasized its readiness to activate such cooperation,” the top diplomat noted in his tweet.
