CAMP DAVID, Md. — President Obama pledged America’s “ironclad commitment” to anxious Persian Gulf nations Thursday to help protect their security, pointedly mentioning the potential use of military force and offering strong assurances that an international nuclear agreement with Iran would not leave them more vulnerable.
Obama promised that the U.S. would join with Gulf Cooperation Council nations “to deter and confront an external threat to any GCC state’s territorial integrity.”
Speaking at the close of a summit with Gulf leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David, he expressed hope that the region would achieve “the kind of peace and good neighborliness with Iran that I think so many of the countries here seek.”
A written annex accompanying a joint statement from the leaders laid out what Obama meant when he promised “our ironclad commitment to the security of our Gulf partners.”
“The United States policy to use all elements of power to secure our core interests in the Gulf region, and to deter and confront external aggression against our allies and partners, as we did in the Gulf War, is unequivocal,” it said.
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