Iranian FM: Bahrain Initiative To Establish Organization With Israel Is Impractical

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in New York on October 3 that his Bahraini counterpart's proposal to form an organization comprising Iran, the Middle East's Arab states, Turkey, and Israel is impractical and cannot be implemented.

The proposal by Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid has been welcomed strongly by Israel and its allies.

Mottaki told IRNA, "I believe that the proposal lacks any ground for materialization. Our Bahraini friends do know where our main problem is and why such an issue cannot be met."
He added, "The problem facing the region is that an illegal regime, which has many claims, is still thinking of expansionism and continued occupation. Besides being illegitimate, such a regime is not basically reliable... All plans set forth have been rejected by the Zionist regime; even in the Arab region, all Arab states came and offered an Arab initiative."

He added, "The initiative calls on the Zionist regime to accept three conditions but it did not meet any of them. This shows that the Regime, besides being illegitimate, is not reliable."

Source: IRNA, Iran, October 3, 2008

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