But the Iranian threat sounded hollow to many officials and experts at the opening day of the conference.
The nature of the Iranian military threat to shipping in the Gulf has not changed, they said.
Bahrain then faced down the Iranian threat and has since prospered.
But he said the new assessment of the Iranian threat required a different system using existing technology.
But this latest Iranian threat has been a fizzle, most clearly in its lack of lasting effect on the oil price.
So the question 'What is to be done about the Iranian nuclear threat?'
Therefore, the current policy will not reduce the Iranian threat to Iraq but rather increase it.
So they are living under a Russian as well as Iranian threat.
The announcement also cited Iranian threats against navigation in the gulf.
The still-gutsy agency concentrates its limited budget on the Iranian threat.