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Iran has once again rejected UAE's claims to three "Iranian" islands, according to a report on Thursday by an Iranian news network.
"The baseless claims made by the GCC in Riyadh over the Iranian islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa is a clear interference in Iran's internal affairs," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told Press TV, an English-language Iranian news network.
"The three islands remain an indisputable part of the Iranian territory. We have repeatedly said that the slight misunderstanding between Iran and the UAE over Abu Musa is resolvable and the interference of other parties will never help solve the problem," he added.
In May 2009, the UAE made calls for Iran to start talks over the three disputed islands.
"The UAE seeks to settle the issue of the occupied Islands, but regrettably three decades had lapsed and nothing positive over the issue so far," Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Mohammad Gargash told the WAM news agency at the time.
Iran gained control of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa islands in 1971, as Britain granted independence to its Gulf protectorates and withdrew its forces.
Iran took possession of the Tunbs, while Abu Musa - the only inhabited island - was placed under joint administration under a deal with Sharjah, now part of the UAE.
The UAE has the full backing of fellow GCC states Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in its claim to the islands, near the Strait of Hormuz, through which an estimated 40 percent of the world's crude oil passes.
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