The GCC states demanded Iran end interference in the region, in a statement on Tuesday at the end of a two-day summit.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast dismissed the statement.
“Shifting the responsibility for the domestic problems of the regional countries is a way of running away from reality, and blaming others or using oppressive methods are not the right ways to answer civil demands,” he said, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA).
In Manama, Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa told reporters on Tuesday that Iran posed a “very serious threat.”
“Politically, (there is) lots of meddling in the affairs of GCC states; an environmental threat to our region from the technology used inside nuclear facilities; and there is of course the looming nuclear programme,” he said, referring to Iran’s disputed atomic work.
