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Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi accused the United Arab Emirates of helping and facilitating military attacks against Iran, saying that Abu Dhabi “betrayed” Tehran during the American-Israeli war.
Speaking at the BRICS foreign ministers meeting in India’s New Delhi on May 15, Gharibabadi rejected what he called “baseless claims” by the UAE foreign minister that Iran had attacked the country and was the aggressor.
“The United Arab Emirates played a significant role in supporting and facilitating military aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Gharibabadi said, according to the official Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA).
He noted that under a 1974 UN General Assembly resolution, countries that provide facilities and services to aggressors are not merely helping them but are committing aggression themselves.
“The UAE is an aggressor, not a helper of aggressors,” he added.
Gharibabadi said Iran had warned regional countries, including the UAE, before the attacks began that if they helped the United States and Israel or made their territory and facilities available, Tehran would exercise what he called its right to self-defense.
“We had no choice but to attack all the facilities of US bases in the UAE, or any facilities and installations in the UAE in which the United States has a share or participation,” he said.
“This was a war, and in that war we defended our country,” he added.
He also stressed Iran had no war with its neighbors and had told regional states that its war was with Israel and the U.S., “not with neighbors and not with the United Arab Emirates.”
Gharibabadi went on to say that the UAE was trying to portray itself as a victim, while “the real victim is the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
He added that the UAE had “not only betrayed the Islamic Republic of Iran as a neighboring country, but is also betraying the Palestinian cause,” accusing Abu Dhabi of inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the war and acting as “the representative and protector of Israel’s interests” at BRICS and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Despite Netanyahu himself announcing the wartime visit to the UAE through his office, Abu Dhabi has officially denied that he came over.
Several recent reports, however, revealed that Netanyahu was not the only senior Israeli official to visit the UAE during the war. Chief of the Israeli Mossad spy agency David Barnea made not one, but two visits. Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir also went to Abu Dhabi.
In addition to these visits, it has been confirmed that Israel deployed air defenses along with troops to operate them to the UAE amid the war.
Even more seriously, a recent report by Bloomberg revealed that the UAE made an unsuccessful attempt to persuade fellow Gulf states to join a coordinated attack on Iran shortly after the start of the American-Israeli war on Islamic Republic.
The UAE ended up attacking a major Iranian petrochemical site on Lavan Island shortly after the ceasefire between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic entered into effect. The attack was reportedly coordinated with Israel.
Despite Gharibabadi’s recent remarks and previous Iranian warnings, the UAE doubled down on its stance in the face of the Islamic Republic.
Speaking at the same BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting, UAE Minister of State Khalifa bin Shaheen Almarar said that the UAE retains the right to defend itself against Iran after accusing Tehran of carrying out more than 3,000 missile and drone attacks since the start of the war.
The minister said that Emirati air defenses intercepted ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones targeting civilian infrastructure including airports, ports, oil facilities and residential areas.
He also accused Iran of disrupting international shipping routes and using the Strait of Hormuz as a tool of “economic blackmail.”
The Israeli surprise announcement of Netanyahu’s visit to the UAE, and all recent reports on military cooperation between the two countries were likely a part of planned effort to increase tensions between Abu Dhabi and Tehran. Adding to this the fact that the last war drove the UAE further away from other Gulf states, it became clear that Israel is the biggest winner from this situation.
Considering the latest developments, it is almost certain that the UAE will join the U.S. and Israel if the war on Iran resumes. From its side, Tehran seems completely fed up with Abu Dhabi.
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if the missiles were intercepted, you have no idea what they were targetting. so they come out with the old “civillians” infrastructure to paint themselves as victims instead of aggressors.
what about drones in dubai causing damage to hotel balconies? edit: “we had no choice but to attack all the facilities of us bases in the uae, or any facilities and installations in the uae in which the united states has a share or participation.” an airfield is one thing. i know it was not ballistic missiles in dubai, but the hotel section is not military. bahrain’s civilian infrastructure was hit with missiles.
oh well, the article doesn’t mention bahrain at all.
kuwait’s international airport. is another. i’m sure the destruction in iran is horrible, but, both sides are not keeping their word. what else is new?
what was left of these yank troops at these bases retreated to these hotels. the drones hit their location floors. stiff sh*t to any fool ‘guests’ that stayed anywhere near these ingrates.
i’m sure these yank heroes on that naval ship that ‘double tapped’ minab girls’ primary school had no second thoughts on what they did, like that ape-cur that captained that uss vincennes.
two wrongs don’t make a right. dubai is a tourist destination.
tourist destination ?
tourists looking for a tax dodge haven from their respective ‘countries’, and that includes these sleazy russian billionaires et al who have fared very comfortably off this ‘russia first’ kremlin over thirty + years, and who understandably look very favourably on their ‘relationship’. 💩
rich people jump off skyscrapers in dubai for fun. i’ll never go there. i still don’t understand peoples nonsensical bias towards a nation, when all nations seem rotten to the core. iran: how many iranians posting here? who has lived in the middle east? all i read is the typical pravda. putin hangs with small hats, the iranian parliament is a pyramid with 33 windows. the entire conflict the last 4 months is basically scripted/already planned. sheesh!
or, an eye for an eye, and the whole world is blind.
i’ve lived under the fear of nuclear armageddon my entire life.
tit-for-tat and we’re all dead. i don’t want that.
the cold war. u.s.s.r. exc. to be clear. not this “iran must not have nuclear weapons” schtick.
boomers on down have always had that potentially on their plate. the end of the ussr bought the waiter to the table, and first courses were served, after the cuban missile crisis entrée was consumed.
you don’t know my age. they keep changing the generations. x is gone now too.
who put missiles in turkey? let’s not re-hash history. i was just being clear because i find all these 20 year old’s thinking they are hot shit. “no justice no peace, who’s rodney king? i’m an idiot.”
it wasn’t my intention to profile what ‘generation’ you may be, purple sleeper. i’m what’s referred to as a ‘boomer’, though i don’t identify as such. 🙂
millennials and gen z are the ones i feel for, especially with this satanic zio-‘jew’ push for ((their)) world order. the young ones and toddlers who we’ve witnessed being deliberately murdered in gaza over the years, are the visual evidence of ((their)) ongoing deliberate hideous intent.
it has to do with using a purple mattress and late night t.v.
i’ mis-read everything. if it’s satanic, only jesus christ can save. unless we’re talking about a different satan, as there is more than one jesus. (only one christ.)
i don’t know what a millennial is! boomer, x, y, z, alpha. depending on who you ask, the date in the decade changes. it’s a poor way to categorize people. other than birthdate and since it’s skewed it’s useless.
down-voting is voting for homicide/suicide. the red phone rings. “did you send missiles at us?” “nope, you’ll have to trust me. it’s a computer error.” “promise?” “da.” “ok.” this happened more than once from both directions. movies were made about it, it happened so frequently. (comma)
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the news already released that the hotel hosted u.s. officials.
way back in march. i am quoting statements from the 15th of may. i love when people downvote a benign comment. especially because sharia law sucks. kuwait’s international airport main terminal was hit with a ballistic missile. liars all around.
these arab quisling whores have been in bed with the jooz for decades.
the uae is certainly no victim. basically five families control the seven emirates that make up the uae. these are the people who would need to be convinced to remain neutral in any future conflict aimed at iran
why dont we just oust them and end the era of sheikhs. these bastards are always on the wrong side of history they also funded the headchoppers in syria who destroyed the entire country and its civilization and history.
the fake sheikhs can go back to goat herding, camel shagging, and selling dirty postcards.
squash uae like the bug it is. it sided with genocidal israelis. it gets what it deserves. no fucks given.
every desal plant. they can drink seawater like the gazan children resorted to.
its time the uae leadership gets ousted. and i dont care if iranian missiles blowup western elitist resorts and offshore tax haven villas in the uae. they deserve it because they screwed all of us back here. the uae is a evil barberic country that uses s lave labor working people to d ea th in the heat under deplorable conditions. that is how these fancy villas were build. just as israel builds its fancy villas with palestinian sl ave labor on top of demolished palestinian v illages.
its time iran should declare that any of thier officail aur militry get assasinated iran will target arab monarchy direct and assiante them for allowing us and israel thier country to target iran.