UAE must respect 1971 Treaty on Iranian Islands in Persian Gulf
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09/02/1391 - 19:22
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Tehran, April 28, IRNA – Professor of geo-politics Pirooz Mojtahedzadeh said
on Saturday that the United Arab Emirates must honor the Treaty of November,
29, 1971 on the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf.

Mojtahedzadeh said that number one fault with the UAE is its failure to
respect the Treaty on ownership of Iranian islands.

He is a lecturer of the United Nations University, intructor of geopolitics
doctoral studies at University of London and doctoral studies on the Persian
Gulf at Oxford University.

He said that he prefers to designate November 30, the day of retaking
ownership of Iranian Islands in the Persian Gulf from the UK as National Day
for the Persian Gulf.

'The first fault with the UAE is that it does not respect November 1971
Treaty.'

He said that in November 1971 four radical Arab states – Iraq led by Saddam
Hussein, Libya led by Muammar Gaddafi, Algeria and Yemen complained to
United Nations over ownership of Iranian Islands and the UAE joined them
after the Emirates emerged.

The then US and UK permanent ambassadors to UN in the meeting acknowledged
Iranian ownership of the Persian Gulf Islands.

'This is a response to US President Barack Obama who has sided with UAE.'

He said that when Tony Blair was the UK prime minister, one of his aides had
speculated about Iranian Islands. 'I wrote a letter to him to remind him
that the UK had ended occupation of the Islands and gave them back to Iran
in 1971. He later apologized for his unlawful remarks.'

Mojtahedzadeh said that he backed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to
Abu Mousa.

The president must have made such a visit to Iranian Islands to tell Obama
that Abu Mousa is a part of Iranian territory.

He said that he has written an article to be published soon addressing Obama
that if the US administration is ready to negotiate ownership of New York,
Iran will consider negotiations on ownership of its islands.

He criticized the transitional government after victory of the Islamic
Revolution in Iran for downgrading Iranian military power in the Persian
Gulf and said that Iranian military was safeguarding the unique status of
Iran in the Persian Gulf.

He also blamed the revolutionary government for decreasing Iranian oil
output from six million bpd to three million bpd and said that in fact Iran
helped other oil producing countries to get greater quota from the market.

The third fault with the revolutionary government was lack of objection from
Iran to the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, he said, adding that the
deposed Shah's government tried to prevent the PGCC from take shape citing
it a Saudi scheme.

'Instead of preventing the PGCC from taking shape, the revolutionary
government called for memebership in the anti-Iran grouping.'

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