evidence: The uneasy detente between Iran and its Arab neighbors is not only threatened by the state of Iranian-U.S. relations but also by dormant territorial disputes. These include disputes over the Greater and Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa islands claimed by the United Arab Emirates and oil and gas fields that Iran shares with neighboring countries – which Iran has not developed due to the international sanctions regime and restricted access to technology. Should the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its engineering arm, Khatam al-Anbia Construction Headquarters, engage in developing the fields, Iran and its Arab neighbors may find themselves entangled in renewed crises. [...] - "Once again, the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council repeated its baseless claims regarding the three Iranian islands by declaring them a part of the United Arab Emirates and by referring to the council’s previous statements on Iran allegedly occupying the Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Bou-Musa islands … The statement further repeated claims concerning the Arash oil and gas field and asserted: ‘the Dorra field lies entirely within the maritime areas of the State of Kuwait, stating that the ownership of natural resources in the divided submerged area are adjacent to the Saudi-Kuwaiti divided area …’ The Islamic Republic of Iran justly considers any claim on the three islands as intervention in internal Iranian affairs and territorial integrity of Iran and strongly condemns them as such. As for the Arash oil and gas field, from Tehran’s viewpoint, repetitive statements and unilateral claims have no legal value and do not prove the Kuwaiti party’s claims."