Gulf Cooperation Council Calls for Including Iran’s Missile Program in Nuclear Negotiations

The Gulf Cooperation Council announced on Wednesday, June 16, that separating the Islamic Republic’s nuclear and missile programs from each other, as well as this country’s destabilizing behavior, would be “dangerous”.

The Arab member states of this council, in their meeting in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, called for the attention of world powers to these issues in Vienna nuclear negotiations.

Iran, along with JCPOA members including Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia, as well as the European Union and the United States, began the sixth round of nuclear negotiations in Vienna on Saturday of this week.

The United States has announced that if Iran returns to its nuclear commitments, it is ready to lift sanctions.

The foreign ministers of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in issuing a statement, asked world powers to sign an agreement with Iran that considers stricter limitations against Tehran and continues for a longer period.

This statement calls for an agreement that takes practical steps to ensure prevention of arms competition and escalation of regional disputes.

These countries have emphasized that within the framework of Iran’s nuclear file, they are ready for effective and serious cooperation with respect for the right of sovereignty and based on the policy of good neighborliness with the Islamic Republic.

This statement, with Iran’s call for serious negotiations and prevention of tension, said that separating the nuclear program from the missile program, as well as Iran’s support for proxy groups, is “dangerous”.

Source: Radio Farda