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Top Iranian military officer: Gulf ‘belongs to Iran’

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A top Iranian military officer on Saturday denounced what he called an “Arab dictatorial front” and claimed that the “Persian Gulf has belonged to Iran for ever”, media reports said.

“The Arab dictatorial regimes in the Persian Gulf are unable to contain the popular uprisings,” General Hassan Firouzabadi, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, was widely quoted as saying by Iranian media on Saturday.

“Instead of trying and failing to open an unworkable front against Iran, these dictators should relinquish power, end their savage crimes and let the people determine their own future,” Firouzabadi said.

He also denounced “plots” by the Gulf Arab petro-monarchies to “carve out an identity for themselves by rejecting the identity of others,” referring to Iran.

“The Persian Gulf has always, is and shall always belong to Iran,” the general said.

Firouzabadi, speaking on the annual “National Day of the Persian Gulf”, also condemned the regional Arab monarchies for refusing to call the waterway between Iran and its Arab neighbours by its “historical name.”

“With the arrival of the British and later the Americans in the region, plots were hatched to try and change the name with fake identities… to distort the history and identity of the Persian Gulf,” Firouzabadi said.

Relations between Iran and its Gulf Arab neighbours have deteriorated sharply, with the latter accusing Tehran of seeking to destabilise Arab regimes in favour of popular unrest that has erupted in many Arab countries.

Shiite-dominant Iran has strongly criticised Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in Sunni-ruled Bahrain aimed to help crack down on a Shiite-led uprising there.

Iran says it gives “moral support” to Bahrainis but is not involved in the protests there.

Bahrain and Kuwait have in turn expelled Iranian diplomats, accusing them of espionage.

Iran has in the past claimed Bahrain as part of its territory, and it controls three islands in the southern Gulf that are also claimed by the United Arab Emirates. Zawya

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19 responses to “Top Iranian military officer: Gulf ‘belongs to Iran’”

  1. guss043 Avatar
    guss043

    So why are you sending your assassins to Syria to help kill people and Asking Hezbollah to help too, what democracy?your Iranian democracy, where women are stoned for doing nothing,A democracy with turban head,or Nasrallah style, may god protect us from your evil and speed up your end as fast as possible, eveil doers !!!!!

    1. ghzayel Avatar
      ghzayel

      if the rumours of hizballah’s involvement in syria turned out to be true, that would be the ultimate in hypocricy, double standards and conniving.

      after falsely accusing the future tayar in lebanon of getting involved in subversive actions in syria and instigating the people to revolt, the last thing that hezballah should be entitled to do and that is to get secretely involved in fighting alongside the syrian government against the syrian people without taking into consideration the repercussions of any changes that could turn the tables upside down in syria.

      but then again, as long as hezballah folks keep holding on to their weapons they are bound to mess things up internally and get involved in military conflicts abroad, these weapons will eventually become a nuisance, first to themselves and secondly to all the lebanese who will end up paying, as in the 2006 war, a dear price for their rash and foolish adventures.

    2. American Infidels Avatar
      American Infidels

      Hopefully soon the Syrians will get hold of the child killer Assad and he will dangle in the breeze,as the Iranians are forced out to Iran where they belong.And the mullahs think they have destroyed the green movement,but it is alive and well and will be coming for them soon.Tehran needs to quit meddling in everyone else’s affairs.

  2. guss043 Avatar
    guss043

    So why are you sending your assassins to Syria to help kill people and Asking Hezbollah to help too, what democracy?your Iranian democracy, where women are stoned for doing nothing,A democracy with turban head,or Nasrallah style, may god protect us from your evil and speed up your end as fast as possible, eveil doers !!!!!

    1. American Infidels Avatar
      American Infidels

      Hopefully soon the Syrians will get hold of the child killer Assad and he will dangle in the breeze,as the Iranians are forced out to Iran where they belong.And the mullahs think they have destroyed the green movement,but it is alive and well and will be coming for them soon.Tehran needs to quit meddling in everyone else’s affairs.

  3. guss043 Avatar
    guss043

    So why are you sending your assassins to Syria to help kill people and Asking Hezbollah to help too, what democracy?your Iranian democracy, where women are stoned for doing nothing,A democracy with turban head,or Nasrallah style, may god protect us from your evil and speed up your end as fast as possible, eveil doers !!!!!

    1. Avatar
      Anonymous

      if the rumours of hizballah’s involvement in syria turned out to be true, that would be the ultimate in hypocricy, double standards and conniving.

      after falsely accusing the future tayar in lebanon of getting involved in subversive actions in syria and instigating the people to revolt, the last thing that hezballah should be entitled to do and that is to get secretely involved in fighting alongside the syrian government against the syrian people without taking into consideration the repercussions of any changes that could turn the tables upside down in syria.

      but then again, as long as hezballah folks keep holding on to their weapons they are bound to mess things up internally and get involved in military conflicts abroad, these weapons will eventually become a nuisance, first to themselves and secondly to all the lebanese who will end up paying, as in the 2006 war, a dear price for their rash and foolish adventures.

    2. Iran Aware Avatar
      Iran Aware

      Hopefully soon the Syrians will get hold of the child killer Assad and he will dangle in the breeze,as the Iranians are forced out to Iran where they belong.And the mullahs think they have destroyed the green movement,but it is alive and well and will be coming for them soon.Tehran needs to quit meddling in everyone else’s affairs.

    3. Iran Aware Avatar
      Iran Aware

      Hopefully soon the Syrians will get hold of the child killer Assad and he will dangle in the breeze,as the Iranians are forced out to Iran where they belong.And the mullahs think they have destroyed the green movement,but it is alive and well and will be coming for them soon.Tehran needs to quit meddling in everyone else’s affairs.

  4. Hannibal Avatar
    Hannibal

    Let me get this straight: You speak Persian yet you claim Shia Arabs as your own just because they are Shiite? Before you look outward start packing as your oppressed people will rise again and your Mullah crazies will be expunged.

  5. Hannibal Avatar
    Hannibal

    Let me get this straight: You speak Persian yet you claim Shia Arabs as your own just because they are Shiite? Before you look outward start packing as your oppressed people will rise again and your Mullah crazies will be expunged.

  6. Hannibal Avatar
    Hannibal

    Let me get this straight: You speak Persian yet you claim Shia Arabs as your own just because they are Shiite? Before you look outward start packing as your oppressed people will rise again and your Mullah crazies will be expunged.

  7. Guest Avatar
    Guest

    The real issues and hidden agendas of the oppressors become clearer and clearer as Arabs in the streets revolt. Good for them.

    So, the dilemma for Arabs. On one had you have the U.S., the West and Israel, and the other hand you have the centuries old Persian thirst to control the Middle East and dominate its Arab citizens who are potentially one step away, or fearfully close enough, from achieving their goals. Is religion truly dividing Arabs and creating a deadly rift amongst them hindering Arab betterment, success, etc?

    What if the Sunni, Shiite and Christian Arabs put their differences aside? I mean the true differences. THE CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMICAL DIFFERENCES DISGUISED AS RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY TOWARDS EACH OTHER.

    As Israel is a proxy of the U.S. and a defacto instrument of its regime, commerce and national security, Is Hezbollah any different? If for Arab pride and dignity you don’t want the former, why would you want the latter?

    Why allow any foreign nation dominate you if you can unite together against all oppressors?

    Aren’t you sick and tired of all this b.s.? Killings, bigotry, hindrance of Arab success.

    I JUST DON’T GET IT.

  8. Guest Avatar
    Guest

    The real issues and hidden agendas of the oppressors become clearer and clearer as Arabs in the streets revolt. Good for them.

    So, the dilemma for Arabs. On one had you have the U.S., the West and Israel, and the other hand you have the centuries old Persian thirst to control the Middle East and dominate its Arab citizens who are potentially one step away, or fearfully close enough, from achieving their goals. Is religion truly dividing Arabs and creating a deadly rift amongst them hindering Arab betterment, success, etc?

    What if the Sunni, Shiite and Christian Arabs put their differences aside? I mean the true differences. THE CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMICAL DIFFERENCES DISGUISED AS RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY TOWARDS EACH OTHER.

    As Israel is a proxy of the U.S. and a defacto instrument of its regime, commerce and national security, Is Hezbollah any different? If for Arab pride and dignity you don’t want the former, why would you want the latter?

    Why allow any foreign nation dominate you if you can unite together against all oppressors?

    Aren’t you sick and tired of all this b.s.? Killings, bigotry, hindrance of Arab success.

    I JUST DON’T GET IT.

  9. VVF Avatar
    VVF

    The real issues and hidden agendas of the oppressors become clearer and clearer as Arabs in the streets revolt. Good for them.

    So, the dilemma for Arabs. On one had you have the U.S., the West and Israel, and the other hand you have the centuries old Persian thirst to control the Middle East and dominate its Arab citizens who are potentially one step away, or fearfully close enough, from achieving their goals. Is religion truly dividing Arabs and creating a deadly rift amongst them hindering Arab betterment, success, etc?

    What if the Sunni, Shiite and Christian Arabs put their differences aside? I mean the true differences. THE CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMICAL DIFFERENCES DISGUISED AS RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY TOWARDS EACH OTHER.

    As Israel is a proxy of the U.S. and a defacto instrument of its regime, commerce and national security, Is Hezbollah any different? If for Arab pride and dignity you don’t want the former, why would you want the latter?

    Why allow any foreign nation dominate you if you can unite together against all oppressors?

    Aren’t you sick and tired of all this b.s.? Killings, bigotry, hindrance of Arab success.

    I JUST DON’T GET IT.

  10. Eric Sandine Avatar
    Eric Sandine

    Not all democracy movements are created equal.

  11. Eric Sandine Avatar
    Eric Sandine

    Not all democracy movements are created equal.

  12. Eric Sandine Avatar
    Eric Sandine

    Not all democracy movements are created equal.

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