Iran raps UAE for active complicity in war
Iranian officials blasted the United Arab Emirates for “direct involvement” in the US-Israeli aggression against their country after it was revealed that UAE warplanes had carried out attacks on Iran.
“The UAE representative speaks about international law, but please tell me which part of international law allows you to support an unjustified and unprovoked act of aggression?” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said after his UAE counterpart Khalifa bin Shaheen Al Marar accused Iran of attacking his country and labelled Tehran as an aggressor during a meeting of BRICS foreign ministers on Thursday.
“Yesterday it was revealed that UAE fighter jets have participated in attacks against us and have even taken direct action against us. Therefore, the UAE is an active partner in this aggression,” Araghchi told the same meeting held in India’s capital, New Delhi.
“I didn’t name the UAE in my [BRICS] statement for the sake of unity. But the truth is that the UAE was directly involved in the aggression against my country. When the attacks started, they didn’t even issue a condemnation,” Araghchi said. The top diplomat argued that neither US bases nor an alliance with Israel provided the UAE with security and that it should reconsider its policy towards Iran. “We must live side by side in peace, and this requires peaceful relations and complete understanding between the two countries,” Araghchi added.
The spat also came a day after the UAE denied a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he visited the Persian Gulf country during the war on Iran, to which Araghchi also reacted by saying that “those colluding with Israel to sow division will be held to account.”
Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi also said on Thursday the UAE could not hide its aggressive nature and role behind false claims and fabricated narratives.
Gharibabadi added that Iran could not remain passive while its people and infrastructure were targeted.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei, issued a veiled warning on Friday, accusing the UAE of hidden betrayal.
“He who betrays in secret will be openly disgraced,” Baqaei wrote in Arabic on the social media platform X without naming the Arab country
After the unprovoked war of aggression by a US-Israeli military coalition launched on February 28, Iran responded in self-defense with countless missile and drone attacks against American and Israeli interests in the region, particularly those in the Persian Gulf states, including the UAE.