Parliament's Research Center Views NATO's Defense Shield as Threat to Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- A research center affiliated to the Iranian parliament announced in a report on Saturday that the NATO's defense shield in the neighboring country of Turkey should be viewed as a threat to the Islamic Republic.
"Deployment of a part of this missile system in Turkey and near Iran is generally a threat to Iran," the report said.

The report proposes the Iranian government to further expand its ties with the neighboring countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan, in which NATO force are deployed to decelerate the bloc's meddling in the region.

It also called for using the media and public diplomacy to show the real cause and incentives of NATO's presence in the region.

The Iranian foreign ministry had earlier called NATO's proposal for the establishment of the new ballistic missile shield in Turkey as "seriously suspicious".
"We think NATO's objective in deploying military forces in the region is seriously suspicious," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast told a regular news briefing in October.
Mehman-Parast added, "We think the stationing of NATO military forces would disrupt security in the region."