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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend the Gulf Cooperation Council summit meeting the week of Dec. 2 in Qatar. Iran will seek to capitalize on the opportunity, brought about by the Gulf Arab states who believe that engagement with Iran is preferable to leaving Tehran to its own devices.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend the Dec. 3-4 summit meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a senior adviser to Ahmadinejad announced Nov. 29. Speaking to state broadcast media, adviser Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi said this is first time Tehran has been invited to the meeting. The heads of state of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and Iran reportedly will discuss the situation in Iraq and the Iranian nuclear controversy. Earlier this month, GCC Secretary-General Abdulrahman al-Attiyah said the meeting would focus on security in the Persian Gulf.


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