Arabs Summit& fearing a new armed conflict in the persian gulf

By: Morteza Aminmansour

Arabs Summit& Fearing a new armed conflict In the Persian Gulf:

The six Persian Gulf Arab states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) staunch US allies -- tend voicing their concerns about Iranian intentions in public. Although they have been using the language of confrontation and escalation instead of reason and dialogue against Iran,
Recently the Corrupt Arab regime UAE (The United Arab Emirates) reiterated its claim to three Iranian islands in Persian Gulf saying that these islands are occupied by Iran (we do not forget that at the time of signing the agreement between Iran and British government which occurred after the British withdrawal in the Persian Gulf also withdrawal from Three Iranian island, the country UAE did not even exist on the map of Persian Gulf). Interfering in our internal Iranian politic such as financial support for the terrorist groups Mdjahedeen khalgh (MKO) or in Sistan Baluchestan creating conflict between Iranian from different religious and ethnic background could spark a new regional conflict. Iranian needs to be aware of this harsh language are used by these Arab regimes (UAE, Saudi Arabia), which are undermining the Iranian sovereignty over our territory. The islands "of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa... are an integral part of our country. We will spare no effort in protect them from this corrupt regime (UAE) and they will be the heart of our national sovereignty. We (Iranian) should make the international community and Iran's leadership aware of our enormous concern about the continuing claim by this Arab Dictatorship (UAE) of these Iranian islands.
In the past Arabs in the middle east came into contact with Western notions of nationalism of the nineteenth century. Impressed, they tried to develop their own ethno-national identity as a necessary step toward modernity. They failed partly because they did not integrate in their system of behavior values such as hard work, punctuality, individualism, anonymous citizenship, respect for world community and their neighbors, informational inquisitiveness, commitment to basic human rights, and acceptance of the idea of broadly shared political responsibility (totalitarian Arab regimes in the Persian Gulf have hard time to understand the need of human being). Now the Arabs are left with no choice but to tackle the consequences of the communication revolution, namely the advent of the era of a global information system, before they have integrated the full political consequences of the industrial revolution.
The Arab League-established in 1945 to coordinate foreign policy and build political solidarity and economic cooperation-was from the start undercut by suspicion and feud (refer to weakness of Arabs politics in the recent year against Israel and Iran), much of it resulting from personal rivalries among Arab rulers (Abdul Nasser in the war between Arab- Israeli, Sadam war against Iran between 1980-1988). Further weakened by the Kuwait war, which saw some Arabs joining a Western alliance against other Arabs, the League is basically ineffectual.
Political representation has become a hot topic in Arab circles in recent years. As a matter a fact, Arab leaders have no choice. In anticipation of future developments especially in the Persian Gulf region, they must accept the need for political reform (which we doubt bout it), a difficult process that requires broad political participation, accountability, and administrative decentralization.
Countries south of Persian Gulf States and in the Middle East will have an ever-harder time managing their internal pressures as technology begins to transform the relationship between governments and people in the Persian gulf region as elsewhere. They will have an ever-harder time managing their internal pressures as technology begins to transform the relationship between governments and people in the region as elsewhere.
The Arabs countries in the Persian Gulf must learn to work together and achieve a modicum of understanding and cooperation among themselves including Iran. Such cooperation has the dual advantage of satisfactorily resolving the chronic identity crisis that continues to prevail among the speakers of Arabic and Persian, and undermining the growth of militant Islam. Furthering Arab cooperation must not, by any means, become an invitation for expansionism or for threatening the interests of other political actors in the Region such as Iran or the Middle East (namely Iran in the recent years).
Americans and other western powers in the region can do their part by pushing Arabs toward democracy and the political elites to engage in painful but unavoidable political reform. Short-term U.S. and western interests in the Middle East may seem to be better served by maintaining the status quo, but eventually those interests require a politics resting on consensus, not repression (which we experience in Saudi Arabia and UAE). Arab publics can, and should be, educated to understand that U.S. vital interests in the Middle East do not necessarily collide with local interests. Arab publics should also be trained to realize that the Jewish state in Palestine is a historical fact and cannot be undermined, that this fact is a reality and can result in happy endings. That can be achieved with involvement of Iranian politic in the region. Establishing a regional security framework for the Middle East could start with an initial focus on the Persian Gulf. The framework should include, at minimum, the United States, the members of the persian Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), and Iraq and including IRAN. It might also include some of Iraq's other neighbors, such as Jordan, Syria, Turkey or Pakistan ,and India. Additional international players, such as the European Union, might be included as external partners.
Regional security and all-out development would materialize in light of friendly and all-out ties as well as regional cooperation. Iranian defense minister added on December 2007 in an interview (Fars news agency). He said that the alien troops (USA, Britain and other European countries) deployed in the region seek to portray an antagonist image of Iran in a bid to make regional countries fearful of the Islamic Republic of IRAN, reminding that aliens hatch such plots in order to loot regional resources.



Sources: Revitalizing Arab Nationalism, by Hilal KhashanMiddle East Quarterly.
The Middle East: Thinking Big , Flynt L. Leveret