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The proposal marked ‘America’s new game’ intended to manipulate the public opinion in the Muslim world, said Ali Aqa-Zadeh Dafsari, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament), reported ICANA, the parliament’s official news agency. “Washington, by tabling this proposal, seeks to present Iran as a threat to the Middle East, while itself, by dispatching warships and deploying military forces in several bases has occasioned an emergency situation in the Persian Gulf,” he said.

Senior officials from the US President Barack Obama’s administration recently forwarded the proposal, claiming that the measure would help head off potential conflicts in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region. “If the White House officials are worried about insecurity in the Persian Gulf, they should immediately pull out their troops and warships from the [regional] waters, because the Islamic countries can maintain security in the region without the foreign intervention,” he asserted.

He said Iran rejected the offer as even assessing the proposal legitimized the US military presence in the Persian Gulf. The US signed a 10-year military pact with Bahrain on October 28, 1991, which enabled it to use military bases in the Persian Gulf island, where the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is headquartered. In 2001, the contract was prolonged until 2011, but was later secretly extended until 2016. The Fifth Fleet carries out patrols of the region with about 30 ships, including two aircraft carriers.