The recent move by the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council... the Medes and the Persians are very sensitive on the subject of the Persian Gulf, which the Arabs refer to as the Arabian Gulf...
([P]GCC) to accuse Iran of meddling in the internal affairs of the Arab states serves the West's interests, says an Iranian politician.
"The repeated claims by a number of tiny Persian Gulf littoral states are aimed at currying favor with their Western masters," IRNA quoted Mehdi Mehdizadeh, a member of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) as saying on Wednesday.
The [P]GCC's Tuesday statement comes against the backdrop of the recent revolutions and popular uprisings against the authoritarian regimes across the Arab world.
The [P]GCC is so reliant on the Western powers that they have not issued even one statement in support of the Paleostinian and Lebanese people and they are only concerned about Iran's affairs, Mehdizadeh argued.
Furthermore, the council has never condemned Israel over its proliferation of nuclear arms and sponsoring different forms of terrorism, the Iranian politician added.
Mehdizadeh insisted that the Medes and the Persians "will not take heed of such baseless accusations" and will continue on its "path to progress and independence."