Sunday, March 10, 2013

Iran Denounces Arab League on Three Islands


Iranian foreign ministry on Sunday evening denounced the Arab League for its latest resolution demanding that Iran withdraw its troops and officials from the three Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunbs. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said the three islands are “inseparable parts of Iran” and the AL’s resolution “lacks legal and political credibility.”

The UAE claims sovereignty over the three islands. During Arab League foreign ministerial meeting in Cairo, the members objected to the presence of Iranians on the three islands and called for an end to their occupation by Iran.

Map credit: The three Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunbs. (US Library of Congress)


14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those three tiny islands are generally paramount in a strategically perspective. One can not help but be dissapointed with the British for setting the ground for this dispute. Britain once conquered these islands from Iran and when they decided that the time was finally right to depart they forced both sides to share ownership over the islands. The right thing would have been to give them back to Iran. Unfortunately, Imperialist policies of the past were often about opening a can of worms between two parties.

Anonymous said...

That's fine,lets reclaim sovereignty over Bahrain.

Anonymous said...

What is the position of the "AUTHORS" of this blog on that issue, including the hidden Mr Iddon...

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P52qqm8oi6o --- IIN cleaning up Persian isles 1971

Anonymous said...

As the islands are in the Arabian Gulf, they must belong to Arabs, n'est-ce pas ?

Anonymous said...

There is no such a thing as an Arabian Gulf. There is historical evidence going back more than 2000 years to verify that. Even the Arabs (Ibn Khaldun) have called it the Persian Gulf. You can bark as much as you want, but regardless of whicg regime is in Iran (and even if we are against the current regime) we will never allow the Arabs to get an inch of those Islands. Saddam tried and failed. The tiny UAE can dream on....

Anonymous said...

@5:54

You're replying to the resident troll.

B.M.A said...

of course he is lamenting the resilience of the IRANIAN regime and its solid position on the issue ! HE WISHES THE ARABS WINS THE DAY in the dispute!

mat said...

The fact is, 'Persian Gulf' will always stay 'Persia', and so do the above mentioned, the so-called three islands which are just right within the location of the Gulf are confirmly, legally and ultimately, IRAN's.

Anonymous said...

It's because of the Arab loving occupying regime in Iran that these lizard eaters have the gore to demand our islands.

Anonymous said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure_of_Abu_Musa_and_the_Greater_and_Lesser_Tunbs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Musa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_and_Lesser_Tunbs

Anonymous said...

Brilliant Nader, finally a topic every Iranian agrees on.

Anonymous said...

I am definitely not Mark Pyruz.

Anonymous said...

B.M.A I think that the authors will be in trouble to state their position on the Iranian islands, because arabic statelets and Saudis have big money...

It seems to me that issue of Islands and other additional conditions may emerge as another demands for lifting of all sanctions...

So it may be a game...where the Islamic Republic may have to create other "inventions"...to offset those demands.

A-F