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Arab countries urged to take a clear position against Iran’s meddling in their affairs

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Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al Khalid al Sabah, Qatar's Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah, Oman's Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and UAE'S Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (L-R) pose for a group photo during an extraordinary meeting in Riyadh January 9, 2016. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser
Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al Khalid al Sabah, Qatar’s Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah, Oman’s Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and UAE’S Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (L-R) pose for a group photo during an extraordinary meeting in Riyadh January 9, 2016. Arab foreign ministers on Sunday called on Arab states to take a clear position against Iran’s alleged meddling in Arab affairs. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser

Arab foreign ministers on Sunday called on Arab states to take a clear position against Iran’s alleged meddling in Arab affairs.

Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir accused Iran at an emergency Arab League session of intentionally failing to protect Saudi diplomatic posts. Protesters in Tehran stormed the Saudi embassy and a Saudi consulate elsewhere in the country after Saudi Arabia executing a prominent Shiite cleric and opposition leader earlier this month.

The session was requested by Saudi Arabia to discuss the attacks. The ensuing crisis has seen Saudi Arabia and several Arab states cut or downgrade diplomatic ties with Iran.

Al Nahyan, who heads the Arab ambassadors’ council, said the attack “took place under the nose and within the earshot of security forces.”

“The attacks came after inciting statements from Iranian officials against the kingdom,” al-Jubair told fellow ambassadors in opening remarks before the session was closed to reporters.

The kingdom’s move comes despite Iran’s recent letter to the U.N. saying Tehran has no desire to escalate tensions and that the Saudis must make a “crucial choice” – either promote sectarian hatred or promote good neighborliness and regional stability.

The Associated Press

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16 responses to “Arab countries urged to take a clear position against Iran’s meddling in their affairs”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    (Quick … Look up Arabic Dictionary meaning of ‘Clear’. )

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      (Quick … Look up Arab dictionary meaning of “crucial choice” 🙂

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        That’s a toughie … compound thought with two words … ‘choice’ alone, not so bad … pick one way at some point … but ‘crucial’ doesn’t seem to be in there … debates on choices take many years, and must be so that all bad choices can be explained 5 centuries later. Upping to ‘crucial’ stage only means all fail. ;-))

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          ‘Crucial Choice’ is in te article means now, not in 5 centuries, why you complicate things..

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            (was on phone..) Sorry … I was just thinking of the usual lengths of time there to effect changes .. :-))

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Oh..

  2. Andre Avatar
    Andre

    Only Arabs can meddle in Arab countries damn it.

  3. Matrix Avatar
    Matrix

    Iranian against Arabs and Arabs against Iranians, that’s a brotherly love….

    “Only Arabs can meddle in Arab countries damn it.” [Andre says…]

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      This is because every ‘sect’ cannot allow good ideas from another ‘sect’ to be heard and accepted … or at least, not until the good ideas can be worked around, to seem to be original ideas from said ‘sect’.
      Bad ideas, on the other hand, can be explained as being caused by another ‘sect’ – until perhaps a revision of them allows for a ‘home-spun variance’ … which may, unfortunately, create a new ‘sect’.
      Some ‘sects’ work very slowly on most of the ideas, due to an evolutionary ‘Natural Complacency’.

      For example, the viewing of a human ankle was ‘an idea’ that caught on rather sooner in some ‘sects’ than in others. And even then, progress beyond that to viewing other human body parts was a very slow progression of ‘an idea’ in some ‘sects’. Strangely, some only allowed the ankle of a ‘male’ to be seen, while the ‘female’ version of same caused great angst across the lands, and even wars in a few cases. (Some ‘sects’ twisted ‘the female’ into being a ’cause’ for their stupidity.)
      The Amazonian Native ‘sects’ have been noted as being the MOST PROGRESSIVE in the thinking about that particular idea, especially ‘the idea’ that the human body is a marvellous ‘machine’ to be appreciated.
      The ‘Bad Idea’ variance, accepted by ‘some’ slower Amazonian ‘sects’, came from ‘Male Franciscan Sects’, who’s stupid clothing only brought various diseases (Tuberculosis, etc ..) with them.
      Fortunately for Humanity, SOME of the Amazonian Sects stayed hidden in the Garden.

      (For many more detailed examples, see ‘Jewish Invention-Of-Everything Under SUN’.)

      1. Matrix Avatar
        Matrix

        The Jews are the best at pointing out the faults of others.

        Jews themselves do not live as they preach! Do they preach..? (oops now I’m condemned as anti-Semitic by the Zionists….)

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          I guess only Priests ‘preach’. Rabbis must ‘ridicule’. Mufti, I suppose, ‘muddle’.
          And therefore, as a ‘branch sect’, Ayatollahs ‘meddle’. 😉

        2. Y K Avatar
          Y K

          As the self-appointed High Priest of Zionism, I hereby officially strike you off the Official Zionist List of Anti-Semites. You are also included in the official “The Zionists Don’t Care What He Thinks About the Jews – Not that They Don’t Know It Already” list.

        3. Y K Avatar
          Y K

          “The Jews are the best at pointing out the faults of others”.
          Your attempts to belittle the Arabs’ unrivaled achievements in the field are, frankly, insulting.

      2. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        Sects are not Nationality Iranian are not Arabs, there are Arab Shia.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Dear Hind. As I eat my porridge in the snow, I had hoped you would be chuckling at the inanities of the world, a little. 😉

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Mental “cruelty”.

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