{"id":479826,"date":"2025-10-07T06:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/479826\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T06:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:49:12","slug":"iran-rejects-pgcc-eu-joint-statement-as-baseless-and-interfering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/479826\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Rejects PGCC\u2013EU Joint Statement as \u201cBaseless and Interfering\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WANA (Oct 07) \u2013<\/strong> Iran has strongly dismissed the joint statement issued by the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) and the European Union, calling its claims \u201cunfounded\u201d and \u201cinterventionist.\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei stressed that the repeated assertions about Iran\u2019s sovereignty over the islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa have \u201cno legal value\u201d and cannot alter historical and geographical realities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baghaei warned against what he described as the \u201cdestructive and divisive interference\u201d of certain European countries in the Persian Gulf region. He underlined that Iran\u2019s sovereignty over the three islands is \u201cindisputable and permanent,\u201d accusing extra-regional actors of fueling tensions through political maneuvering.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39071\" class=\"wp-image-39071 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s sovereignty over the three islands. Social Media \/ WANA News Agency\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WANA-Irans-sovereignty-over-the-three-islands.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-39071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran\u2019s sovereignty over the three islands. Social Media \/ WANA News Agency<\/p>\n<p>He further rejected references in the PGCC\u2013EU statement to Iran\u2019s defense and nuclear programs, calling them \u201cunacceptable interference in matters of national sovereignty.\u201d Baghaei said, \u201cThose who have turned our region into an arsenal of advanced weapons worth hundreds of billions of dollars are in no position to lecture Iran about its indigenous defensive capabilities.\u201d He singled out Germany and France, accusing them of imposing their political agendas on the EU while providing full-scale support to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turning to Europe\u2019s role in the 2015 nuclear deal (<a href=\"https:\/\/wanaen.com\/pezeshkian-jcpoa-violators-to-blame-for-current-situation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JCPOA<\/a>), Baghaei condemned what he called the \u201cweak, non-independent, and bad-faith\u201d conduct of the three European parties to the agreement. \u201cIt is disgraceful that those responsible for the current situation now pose as claimants,\u201d he remarked, criticizing PGCC member states for offering a platform to European powers instead of addressing regional issues directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came in response to a joint statement released on Monday (October 6) in Kuwait, following a meeting of PGCC and EU foreign ministers. In that statement, Iran was urged to return to its legally binding commitments under the nuclear agreement and to fully resume cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The PGCC and EU emphasized that diplomacy remained the only viable path to a sustainable solution regarding Iran\u2019s nuclear program, noting that the return of sanctions \u201cdoes not mean the end of dialogue with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The joint communiqu\u00e9 also called on Tehran to curb its missile and drone development programs and to play a role in reducing regional tensions. Iranian officials, however, maintain that the country\u2019s military capabilities are strictly defensive in nature, insisting that regional instability stems from Israel\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WANA (Oct 07) \u2013 Iran has strongly dismissed the joint statement issued by the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,159232,774,75528,159233],"class_list":{"0":"post-479826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-gulf-cooperation-council","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-jcpoa","15":"tag-persian-gulf-cooperation-council"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115331554986463223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}