The United States and its Arab Gulf allies on Wednesday issued a joint warning to Iran, accused of “cause a nuclear crisis“and destabilize the Middle East with its ballistic missiles and drones.
“All participants urged new Iranian government to seize diplomatic opportunity“linked to the Vienna negotiations to save the Iran nuclear deal”to prevent conflict and crisis“Washington and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said in a joint statement after a meeting in Riyadh of their working group on Iran.
These indirect negotiations between the Americans and the Iranians, suspended since the election in June of a new president in Iran, must resume at the end of November. They aim to revive the 2015 agreement supposed to prevent Tehran from accessing the atomic bomb, which the United States withdrew in 2018, resulting in the violation by the Islamic Republic of many limits to its nuclear program.
“Iran has taken steps that do not meet any civilian need but which could prove important for a nuclear weapons program“, deplored the representatives of the United States and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait.
These countries also condemned the “aggressive and dangerous policies“attributed to Tehran, of which”the proliferation and direct use of advanced ballistic missiles“and drones.
“Iran’s support for armed militias across the region and its ballistic missile program pose a clear threat to security and stability“, they warned.
Some Gulf countries, such as Qatar and Oman, are often viewed as channels used by the United States to communicate with Iran.
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