Illustrative image. (U. S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth/Released)
Officials in the administration of United States President Donald Trump are encouraging the United Arab Emirates to become more involved in the war on Iran — and even to take control of one of its islands, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported on May 16.
According to the report, the officials, who are close to Trump, had suggested that the UAE occupies Lavan Island — located more than 250 kilometers away from Emirate shores.
The UAE attacked a petrochemical site on Lavan shortly after the ceasefire between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic entered into effect last month. The attack was reportedly coordinated with Israel.
“Go take them!” a senior security official in the U.S. administration told the British newspaper, adding: “It would be UAE boots on the ground instead of U.S.”
After clashing with the U.S. Navy earlier in the month, Iran renewed strikes on the Gulf state, causing both material damage and casualties. Abu Dhabi warned that it could respond.
Reports revealing an Israeli military deployment in the UAE, and the announcement of a secret wartime visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Abu Dhabi lead to further increase in tensions, with Tehran issuing several serious threats in response.
Speaking at the BRICS foreign ministers meeting in India’s New Delhi on May 15, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem 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).
“The UAE is an aggressor, not a helper of aggressors,” he added.
Responding during the same 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.
Emirate officials told the Telegraph that the Gulf state received stronger backing from Israel and the U.S. than from its neighbors in the Gulf, which showed very little solidarity.
There is no doubt that the war has driven the UAE closer than ever to Israel and the U.S. With diplomatic efforts to end the war stuck, Abu Dhabi is likely to join in if fighting resumes. That being said, an Emirate attempt to occupy Lavan is highly unlikely to happen, even with full American and Israeli support.
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orange pirate terrorist in chief sends his chihuahuae to bark on iran (yip yip}-🐩(you go first}-🐖
any stooge cannon fodder will do so far as rhe jooz and amerikunts are concerned.
looks like s-f doesn’t want anything mentioned about the major ordnance explosion that happened 4 hours ago in beit shemesh?…
stop me now! all kinds of strange sonar sense, a lot i don’t understand myself.
one time i couldn’t say the name of various “united” corps. owned in majority by the rus. gov. and founded the current prez vlad putin. (typed lame for approval)
still can’t. 3 major weapons makers. land air and sea. “united” russia. it’s the same as knowing lockheed martin or boeing makes a certain jet or whatever. why can’t i say the exact name? bias.
cuz we americunts are feminized tranny cowards desperate to swallow arab jizz
probably because they forget to hang the murderer in china. instead, they had 170 young girls to perform for him. morbid, to say the least. chinas performance in the faked pandemic are highly suspicious. who (!) runs the shitshow ?
emperor trumpstein want me lick mulatto boots–he makes me pay shekels to scrub jew toilets
as the great oliver hardy said, “here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into.”
take a number between three and five.
take the unit of currency of the united snakes.
multiply this by one trillion.
…….. and you have the current actual cost, direct and indirect, of chumpo’s “little excursion” into iran. and the meter is running.
this little riddle is necessary to avoid sf blanket censorship.
strange for an ‘independent news’ outlet, eh?
indeed……
the amerikunts couldn’t defeat the houthis or the taliban. they will get their butts kicked again.
the only way uae could get closer to israel is to climb up nutty’s ass. as for attacking iran? they are shaking in their boots at the very thought.