Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the
United States on Monday of transforming the Gulf into a "tinderbox" with its arms sales to regional allies.
Some of the countries in the region with less than a third of our population spend $87 billion on military procurement," Zarif told Qatar's Al Jazeera broadcaster during a visit to the Gulf state.
Washington is pursuing a "maximum pressure" campaign designed to force
Iran to limit its nuclear and military activities.