Tehran (IP) - The chief of Iran's presidential staff calls the US presence in the Persian Gulf illegitimate, and source of insecurity and instability, stressing the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council should not follow the US.

Iran Press/ Iran News: Mahmoud Vaezi wrote on his Twitter account on Tuesday in response to a letter from the secretary-general of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council to the UN Security Council which requested an extension of the arms embargo on Iran: "The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council should not follow the United States, whose illegitimate presence in the region is nothing but insecurity and instability."

Vaezi emphasized: “The recent action of this council causes distrust and most of the damage is returned to them.”

Secretary-General of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf, on Saturday, in line with US hostile policies against Iran, sent a letter to the UN Security Council calling for the extension of Iran's arms embargo.

Meanwhile, a European diplomat told Reuters on Tuesday that the last-minute effort by Europe to convince Russia and China in this regard has failed.

According to UNSC Resolution 2231, the UN arms embargo on Iran will end on October 18. Based on the reports, the US will offer the draft resolution of extending arms embargo in a UNSC session on Tuesday.

China and Russia have clearly announced that they will veto such a resolution, however, Foreign Policy has reported that Washington may even fail to attract the required 9 votes to pass the resolution in the first place.

The United States has started efforts to extend the embargo as a continuation of its anti-Iranian measures. Washington has also threatened that it might use the ‘snapback’ mechanism of the JCPOA if the UNSC rejects the resolution. This is while Washington has 'ceased participation' in the deal and, legally speaking, it is not able to use the JCPOA trigger mechanism.

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