Iran Press/ Middle East: US President Joe Biden is using a summit of Arab nations to lay out his strategy for the Middle East as he closes the final leg of a four-day trip meant to bolster Washington’s ties in the region.
At the summit that began in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea city of Jeddah on Saturday, Biden said the United States “will not walk away” from the Middle East, Al Jazeera reported.
Leaders of six countries of the Perian Gulf Cooperation Council – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates – plus Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq are holding talks on regional security and bilateral relations with the United States at the summit.
“We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran,” Biden said. “We will seek to build on this moment with active, principled, American leadership.”
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Although US forces continue to target armed groups in the region and remain deployed at bases throughout the Middle East, Biden claimed that he was turning the page after Washington’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Today, I am proud to be able to say that the eras of land wars in the region, wars that involved huge numbers of American forces, is not under way,” he said.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani says the increased presence of the United States in the West Asia region will only foment insecurity in the region and help further spread terrorist activities.
“Iran has always highlighted regional dialogue, cooperation and collaboration [as prerequisites] for providing security and realizing common interests of regional countries without intervention of foreigners,” he added on July 9.
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