The Iranian project and its impact on the Gulf Cooperation Council

In the wake of the signing of the nuclear agreement between Iran and western countries, International and regional trends were divided into two part: first, adopted by the western countries in general and the United States of America in particular , a trend that the agreement would represent the beginning of the " to achieve regional stability, which in turn means of achieving global stability" that may be the correct orientation , If Iran wants to deal with its neighbors in accordance with the principles of international relations and international law, which confirm the unity, sovereignty and independence of States and the prohibition of interference in the internal affairs of States, the second orientation, adopted by some countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, as well as some Arab countries that i agreement would enhance the negative role played by Iran toward regional security issues in general, and the Gulf Cooperation Council on special form, including means that it is a mistake to reduce the gulf-Iranian relations in the nuclear issue, on the contrary, the nuclear agreement and the lifting of the sanctions on Iran would give Iran Freedom of movement in the employment of financial assets frozen in banks in western countries, support groups without states in neighboring countries, the debate heated up between the trends, even if that was not on the official level only, but extended to the public opinion, both within the United States of America or the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab States, shortly after the signing of the nuclear agreement only six months, but the events confirmed the validity of the second orientation, in the wake of the announcement by the Saudi authorities on the implementation of the death penalty in the 47 accused in the January 2, 2016, including 'Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr' by being convicted of carrying out terrorist acts against vital installations and threatened the security and stability of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - an issue that is a purely internal affair- where demonstrators burned the building of the Saudi embassy in Tehran and breaking into it and grab its contents as well as by members of the Iranian revolutionary guard stormed the Saudi consulate in the city of Mashhad and igniting fire in the building, those events which received wide condemnation of the regionally and internationally and condemnations of three considerations:
First: Iran's actions are a clear violation of the principles defined in general international law, expressed by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations in 1961 as well as the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations in 1963.
Secondly: the Iranian protest on the issue of extrajudicial executions do not replace him as that issue is an internal affair of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and may not interfere in it, whether by Iran or by any other party.
Third: The Iranian acts have confirmed beyond a doubt the validity of the viewpoint of the Cooperation Council countries that has always warned against the leniency of the western countries about the Iranian policies and that the problem was not in the nuclear agreement ,but with its implication on Iranian policies for more interference in the internal affairs of neighboring.
It is noteworthy that it was not the first time that the Iranian policy include threats to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for example, a Brigadier general Morteza Krabai, one of the intimates of the Jerusalem Corps Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard general Qasim Sulaimani, saying: "if the supreme leader issued orders to beat Saudi Arabia we have 2000 ready to launch missile toward Saudi Arabia from Isfahan".
With the multiplicity of reasons that can explain the Iranian policies toward the states of the Cooperation Council in general and Saudi Arabia in particular, there is a major reason is that in light of the Saudi policy actors toward regional issues, including the Yemeni crisis that made the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to take a strategic decision of military intervention in Yemen led by Arab alliance, this was the beginning of the abortion of the Iranian regional project, that strategic decision came to be different from the expected in Iran, thus representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the main obstacle to regional ambitions of Iran.
The foregoing means that the conflict would be a characteristic that distinguishes the gulf-Iranian relations currently and in the future, in many regional systems in different regions of the world, we find that it promotes the concept of cooperative security, It is intended activity among States to reduce the possibilities of war or to minimize the damage caused by the war as if signed, this includes disarmament and confidence-building ,security, economic development and addressing the proliferation of weapons, and the most prominent examples of this, the organization of cooperative security in Europe, but that Iran's regional policy inconsistent with this type of security, but is keen to eevation of the concept of strategic security, which is one of the most important features of it the arms race, which allowed Iran to stretch through its allies from groups without states.

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