Tehran - (AFP) - Iran considered on Sunday that US President Joe Biden's statements during his regional visit, especially before leaders of Arab countries in the Saudi city of Jeddah, were an American attempt to "stir up tension" in the region.

On Saturday, Biden concluded his first tour in the region as president of the United States, which included Israel, the Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, by assuring before the leaders of Gulf and Arab countries that Washington will not allow a regional vacuum to be filled by Russia, China or Iran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani considered that "the allegations and accusations made by US President Joe Biden during his Middle East tour, including his statements at the Jeddah summit, are unfounded and unfounded."

"These empty allegations come in the context of the continuation of the American policy to create strife and stir up tension in the region," he said in a statement at dawn on Sunday.

And Biden stressed during the Jeddah summit with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council states, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, which came days before a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Tehran, "We will not abandon (the Middle East) and we will not leave a vacuum filled by China, Russia or Iran."

"Let me conclude by summarizing all of this in one sentence: The United States is committed to building a positive future in the region, in partnership with all of you, and will not leave."

He stressed that the United States "will not tolerate the attempt of one country to dominate another country in the region through military reinforcements, incursions, or threats," in particular referring to Iran, which its neighbors accuse of trying to destabilize.

In a joint statement issued by the summit, the leaders pledged to "preserve regional security and stability" and deepen their defense and intelligence cooperation.

They stressed diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, calling for strengthening joint deterrence capabilities "against the growing threat" posed by Tehran's drone program.

Biden had arrived in Saudi Arabia from Israel on the first direct flight from the Hebrew state to the kingdom.

During his visit to the arch-regional enemy of the Islamic Republic, Biden pledged, in a security declaration he signed with Israel, Thursday, that the United States would use all elements of its "national strength" to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, which Tehran has always denied seeking.

While Kanani indicated that the United States was "the first country to use the nuclear bomb," he considered that it "resorts again to its failed policy of intimidation from Iran " to stir up regional tension.

He believed that "the false American accusations against Iran's peaceful nuclear program and America's turning a blind eye to the Zionist deception that has been going on for decades as an entity (...) that possesses the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the region, is clear evidence of the US administration's policy of forgery and hypocrisy."