Manama: A Kuwaiti lawmaker has urged all Arab states to unite against the Iranian danger, saying that Iran was their true enemy.
“All Arab countries need to come together to confront the danger emanating from Iran and which seeks to undermine their security and take over their resources,” MP Hamad Al Harashani, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the parliament, said. “Iran’s malicious approach is to distance itself from all despicable acts, but we are all now are of its ruses and we all know for sure that Iran is a lurking enemy that wants to absorb our countries and resources. It is the real enemy of the region,” he said in a statement published by Kuwaiti daily Al Rai on Sunday.
The lawmaker, in his unusually bold remarks, charged Iran of working on spreading chaos and toppling regimes that are endorsed by their peoples.
“However, its plotting will not succeed and its expansionist designs will not go further than its conceit and arrogance,” he said. The lawmaker was speaking one day after Bahrain said that one policeman was killed in a terror blast in the village of Karranah, west of the capital Manama. Seven people, including three civilians, a couple and an infant, were also injured in the attack in which two bombs were detonated.
The deadly blast occurred exactly one month after two policemen were killed in a similar attack in Sitra, south of Manama.
Iran was blamed for training terrorists and providing them with explosives and weapons.
“Iran’s insistence on undermining the stability and security of the region is bewildering, particularly that everyone is now aware of it,” Al Harashani said. “The terror explosion in Karranah in Bahrain is another example of Iran’s antagonism and its drive to dominate the Arabian Gulf after it caused havoc in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. Iran has focused on Bahrain, driven by the belief that it is an easy prey, but it was astonished by the bravura of the honourable people of Bahrain who have sacrificed themselves for the sake of their homeland. Gulf nationals, in general, support the Bahraini leaders and will not leave Bahrain alone in the face of aggression,” he said.
Al Harashani added that the Gulf Cooperation| Council (GGC) states needed to activate their security cooperation and “take the necessary measures and precautions against anyone plotting to scare people in the region.”
The GCC, set up in 1981, is a loose alliance that brings together Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
“It is imperative that armed militias supported by Iran, our terrible neighbour that insists on interfering in the GCC affairs, be prevented from causing chaos in the Gulf after they destroyed Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen,” he said.
