IsraelUS war on Iran and position of Persian Gulf states
Israel–US war on Iran and position of Persian Gulf states
TEHRAN- At dawn on Saturday, February 28, 2026, Israel and the United States officially and jointly attacked Iran and, at the very outset, assassinated the Leader of the Islamic Republic. This occurred while negotiations between Iran and the United States were ongoing.
The Foreign Minister of Oman had, with full optimism, reported progress in the talks to U.S. officials. The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency was present at the Geneva negotiations as both an observer and a participant. President Trump himself had announced that the next meeting would take place on the upcoming Friday. Nevertheless, the racist Netanyahu had declared that he would do everything in his power to sabotage this agreement. This is the second time that Trump has sacrificed global security to the reckless adventures of the criminal Netanyahu. The reality is that these two malicious figures have rendered politics and diplomacy dysfunctional worldwide. Like rogues, they utter words at every moment and then act contrary to their own statements, setting the world on fire.
The expectation from our neighbors and the countries of the southern Persian Gulf was that they would offer condolences to the government and people of Iran on the martyrdom of Iran’s leader and condemn the Israel–U.S. aggression, which occurred without any justification and without going through any legal process at the United Nations. However, not only did they fail to do so, but they also considered Iran’s retaliatory response to the attacks on the aggressors’ bases as an attack on their own territory and immediately conveyed to Iran their intention to reserve the right to retaliate. Of course, these countries had previously made a similar mistake during Saddam’s aggression against Iranian territory. Yet this time it was expected that they would stand by their patient and Muslim neighbor, who was attacked during the holy month of Ramadan by a racist Zionist regime. Moreover, Iran had already warned them that, in the event of aggression by Israel and the United States, the war would become regional. How can they remain silent in the face of aggression by the criminal Netanyahu—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and who has mercilessly killed more than 70,000 Palestinian Arabs—and then line up against Iran?
It would have been better for our neighbors in the southern Persian Gulf to at least take a look at Britain. The Prime Minister of that country, which founded Israel and is a strategic ally of the United States, never agreed to call the actions of these two criminals lawful. Although he shrewdly assisted them midway, he refrained from recognizing the legality of their actions. As an Iranian politician, I wish to say that it is not too late yet. Our neighbors would do well, instead of placing themselves in a camp led by the criminal Netanyahu, to stand alongside Iran and, in the midst of this crisis, seek to establish a regional security system with the participation of themselves, Iran, Pakistan, and China, and jointly safeguard energy supply chains and the global value chain. In my view, inviting the European Union and the United States to join these security arrangements at a later stage poses no obstacle. We have a duty to ensure regional security for all.
Sooner or later, this conflict will end; the United States will leave the region, but by the force of geography, we must live side by side in peace. Just last week, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel welcomed the annexation of all countries located between the Nile and the Euphrates into Israel, which led to a joint position by the southern Persian Gulf countries. Undoubtedly, Israel, as a major cancerous tumor, is the greatest source of threat to all of us.
In these past three days, the countries of the region have seen that the United States and Israel are unable even to protect their own interests in the region, let alone assume responsibility for the security of others. Therefore, it would be better for us, rather than confronting one another, to consider a regional security policy and not be deceived by the criminal Netanyahu.
source: tehrantimes.com