In the letters he sent, Shaikh Khalid highlighted the recent hostile and blatant threats made against the Kingdom by Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for African and Arab Affairs, Amir Hussain Abdullahyan, to Fars News Agency on May 18, 2013, of which Kingdom of Bahrain considers as a direct threat, and unacceptable interference in its internal affairs. “These hostile threats constitute a behaviour that is unprecedented in the relations among states that drifted away from rules of international diplomacy and international relations,” Shaikh Khalid said.
Shaikh Khalid also added that such statements clearly reflect Iran’s expansionist ambitions over an Arab State and a member of the United Nations, the League of Arab States, Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
The Foreign Minister stressed in his letters the importance of informing about these grave acts, threats, and the political, religious and media incitements Kingdom of Bahrain has been long exposed to, which threaten its international peace and security and increase tension in the Gulf region.
The Foreign Minister expressed his full confidence that the international community will take these threats and their implications into serious considerations so as to consolidate and promote the principles of United Nations and international law, which assert the sovereignty and independence of states and the non-interference in their internal affairs.
These U.N. principles and international law also stress a sustainable keenness on preserving the principles of good neighbourliness, mutual respect for national sovereignty, and the spirit of peace and understanding as a basic rule that must be supported in the relations between countries.