Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit stressed on Wednesday the need to review the Iran nuclear deal.
Commenting on the US withdrawal from the agreement, he said: “The 2015 deal only tackled Iran’s nuclear role. We have long said that this issue, though important, was not the only one that should be monitored.”
He accused in a statement Tehran of adopting policies that are destabilizing the region.
“Even without this nuclear aspect, it is adopting practices that we oppose because they are based on exploiting Arab issues in its confrontation with the West,” he declared.
“The recent Arab summits in Jordan and Saudi Arabia were clear in expressing the extreme exasperation from Iran’s actions in the Arab region and in calling for the need to alter this behavior,” Abul Gheit continued.
“We have repeatedly said that Iran needs to seriously reconsider its approach if it truly wanted to establish good neighborly ties with Arab countries,” he stated.
US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday his country’s withdrawal from the “defective” Iran nuclear deal.
The move was hailed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Yemen.
Riyadh stressed that it backs Trump’s future actions on Iran, reiterating its accusations against Tehran of destabilizing the region and supporting terrorism.
