Act like one country, MP to GCC

Manama

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will have to act like one country if they have to survive in the current situation, commented MP and Head of Public Utilities and Environment Committee in the Parliament Jamal Dawood yesterday.

Dawood was of the view that the highest authority in Iran, their supreme leader Ali Khamenei, has said in a loud and clear voice that the nuclear deal with the P5+1 world powers would not affect their regional policy and they would continue interfering in the internal matters of Bahrain, Yemen and Syria.

“Many other high officials, including the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firuzabadi have also issued the corresponding statements confirming their stance. In the light of all these statements all the GCC countries should sit together to discuss this issue and come out with viable one national security policy for the whole GCC states,” he suggested.

Commenting that security is the biggest issue in Bahrain, Dawood said, “If you go to any majlis in Manama, Muharraq, Riffa or anywhere in the Kingdom, you will see the people discussing one topic, the security.”  

He said that Bahrain needed to upgrade its security system. “The Ministry of Interior (MOI) has been working very efficiently on it. We, the parliamentarians, fully support the MOI’s efforts,” he said.

Talking to DT News, he also reminded of his earlier statement that the Coast guards should be provided with the high tech helicopters to keep tab on the territorial waters of Bahrain to find attempts of weapons smuggling from Iran. He said that Iran had been smuggling weapons and explosives into Bahrain via the sea route and the coast guards had foiled their many such attempts. The parliamentarian added that Bahrain alone could not cope with so strong and cunning enemy like Iran.