Iran’s navy commander said Friday that Tehran was working to form a naval alliance with several Gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iraq.
“The countries of the region have today realized that only cooperation with each other brings security to the area,” Iranian Navy Commander Shahram Irani said.
In response to Irani’s comments, the spokesman for the US Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet said Iran forming such an alliance “defied reason” and blamed Tehran for the current tensions in the region. “It defies reason that Iran, the number one cause of regional instability, claims it wants to form a naval security alliance to protect the very waters it threatens,” said spokesman Cmdr. Tim Hawkins.
The US recently stepped up its military activity in the Persian Gulf after Iran seized two oil tankers in the region. Missing from the US rhetoric about the issue is the fact that the Iranian actions came after the US seized a tanker carrying Iranian oil and stole its cargo.
While the Gulf countries Iran is looking to build an alliance with have a history of being close to the US, diplomatic relationships are shifting in the region. Iran and Saudi Arabia are looking to cooperate more closely after signing a surprise China-brokered normalization deal, and Abua Dhabi and Tehran are also working to forge stronger ties.
Irani’s comments came after the UAE announced it withdrew from a US-led maritime coalition in the region. “As a result of our ongoing evaluation of effective security cooperation with all partners, two months ago, the UAE withdrew its participation in the Combined Maritime Forces,” the UAE’s Foreign Ministry said last week.
A Iran that is not constantly treated like crap might try to get along with others.
after the US seized a tanker carrying Iranian oil and stole its cargo.
The US is pushing a three front war with Russia, Iran and China and some news sources claim it is running on empty already just on the first front. Now China begins to move;
“The cold war mentality is now resurging and greatly increases security risks of bloc confrontation in the Asia-Pacific. Some big powers continued to promote its so-called “Indo-Pacific Strategy” at this Dialogue. China holds that no strategy should be based on ideological ground and aim to build exclusive military alliances against imagined threats, as this could easily lead to a self-fulfilling prophesy.”
Li Shangfu Chinese State Counselor and Minister of National Defense said at the 20th Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore.
Yes but, like Ukraine, Israel is to take the lead in the mid-east/Persian Gulf, and Japan/Korea in the East and Pacific…??
Israel vs Iran is about the same scale as Japan vs modern China. I get the idea but these match ups seem too lopsided to carry the ball very far. Additionally, southern Korea seems unreliable to me. Yes it has a right wing government as does Taiwan, yet the populations of these countries may resist US orders to fight and die for the US wealthy class.
I see what you’re saying. And it certainly makes sense, … but the war games over the past year all partnered with the USM and each with a designated “enemy” which poses no threat, compels the inference Washington intends provocations as presently with Russia. Presumably in each case the USM would do the surveillance & coordination, and battle prep with the stand-off bombing from ships and planes??? As for the resistance within those populations, who would have thought the Germans would sign on to the Ukraine insanity?
Chinese, Iranian, and Russian diplomacy smiles poker faced while Russia arm wrestles Nato and Five eyes, all of them at once. Now the Chinese military speaks at Shanghai-La and this general tells people that imaginary propaganda can cause false diversionary prophesy to become real. This is a first.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202306/1291944.shtml
The US military budget is a hockey stick graph now. Medicare and retirement funds cannot be squeezed enough. WW3 plunder is the only way forward to meet budget growth.
The Chinese are thinking in nation-state terms; Washington, globalist elite. The Davos class has no more thought for the general population of US, Germany, France, England, … than that of Ukraine, … beyond exploitation and manipulation, resources and markets (especially labor).
Evolution to a modern form of democracy is blocked in the US by a partnership of democrats and republicans. I put a schematic of Hugo Chávez’s government invention on the web and added one facet. https://www dot constituentassembly dot org I did this hoping to help humanity escape extinction.
An alliance may or may not come to pass, but for sure things are changing rapidly. The Gulf states need to be careful though: the Hegemon does not appreciate its satraps leaving … they need to be very careful.
Tehran blamed for tensions in the region?
Sorry, pal. I know it’s easy for Amerikkkans to confuse their Middle Eastern nations that begin with “I”, but I think you’re actually referencing IsraHell.
If Saudis and Iraqis go along with this alliance, others would join. Bahrain and the rest of alliance can then tell US fifth fleet to get the F out of PG…!
Maybe,,JUST Maybe, if the USA and England had not in 1953 overthrown the democratically elected leader of Iran and then installed the rotten Shah,,we would have never had these so called “problems” with Iran,,agreed???
Nah the US always finds a way to make n enemies It is in our nature to antagonize other countries except for America’s stooges.
I think Ozymandias just sh*t his britches…
…And the walls came tumbling down…
The reason it’s been called Persian Gulf for over 25 centuries, is because this body of water belongs to Iran and Iran has every right to secure it, control it and mange it. Just like you wouldn’t want Indonesia to start controlling Gulf of Mexico or US ports, Iran has similar security concerns.
It’s very simple, Iran is regional power and US doesn’t need to be in Persian Gulf. The sooner you leave, the sooner peace and prosperity will return to this region. Let’s focus on US infrastructure and stop spending and wasting billions on imaginary enemies.