IISS 2007 Regional Security Summit Press Coverage
- December 9th - - VOA News - UN Nuclear Experts to Examine New Area of Iranian Activities
In another development, Iran's Foreign Ministry is dismissing allegations by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates that the Tehran government is trying to create chaos in the Middle East. Gates was speaking Saturday at a global security conference in Bahrain. He urged Gulf Arab states at the conference to support U.S.-led efforts to pressure Iran into suspending uranium enrichment, a process that can be used in developing nuclear weapons.
- December 9th - - Associated Press - Iran condemns Gates' demand to push Tehran to stop nuclear program
Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday condemned remarks made by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who over the weekend lashed out at Iran for seeking to cause chaos and demanded its neighbors push Tehran to renounce its nuclear program. "Basically, this expression is an intervention in the domestic affairs of the regional countries," ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters. But Hosseini said Gates' comments on Saturday and other "activities by the U.S. have not...
- December 9th - - The Peninsula - Gulf needs strong Iraq: PM
Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani yesterday said Iraq was not invited to the Gulf Cooperation Council summit because of the sectarian divide prevailing in that country. In front of hundreds of delegates at a security summit in Bahraini capital, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem, in response to a question by Iraq’s national security adviser Mowaffaq Al Rubaie on why non-Arab Turkey and Iran were invited to last week’s Doha summit...
- December 9th - - The Peninsula - Gulf single currency unlikely by ’10: PM
Gulf states are unlikely to meet a 2010 deadline for monetary union, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani said here yesterday
- December 9th - - Press TV (Iran) - Hosseini: US interferes in region
Iran has said that Saturday's remarks by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates was interference in internal affairs of regional countries. "Such remarks, made by Gates at a global security conference in Manama, Bahrain, targeted solidarity among regional countries," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini told reporters Sunday.
- December 9th - - Press TV (Iran) - US advised against seeking sanctions
Regarding recent comments made by the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in a conference on the Middle East in Bahrain, Larijani said that Gates' remarks are apparently aimed at striking a kind of regional balance. "It is interesting that while the US believes in unilateralism on the international scene, it subscribes to regional balance on the regional level. If balance is good on a regional scale, why should it not be equally good on the international level?" he exclaimed.