This is the expected reaction, but this time pragmatic considerations are getting more attention than usual, and the Islamic world is not marching in lockstep with this theme.
“Iran threatens to attack UAE over Israel deal,” Arab News, August 16, 2020:
DUBAI/PARIS/ANKARA: Iran issued an explicit threat on Saturday to launch an attack against the UAE over its agreement to normalize ties with Israel. President Hassan Rouhani said the UAE had made a “huge mistake” and condemned what he called a betrayal.
The Iranian hard-line daily Kayhan, whose editor in chief is appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, went further. “The UAE’s great betrayal of the Palestinian people … will turn this small, rich country, which is heavily dependent on security, into a legitimate and easy target,” it said in a front-page editorial.
Iran has already targeted Saudi civilians with missiles launched by its proxy forces in Iraq and Yemen, and security analyst Dr. Theodore Karasik told Arab News the new threat should be taken seriously.
“Iranian missiles could hit the UAE in eight minutes,” said Karasik, a senior adviser to Gulf State Analytics in Washington, D.C. “They can target critical infrastructure, or they can simply target the desert in an act of psychological warfare. “Recent Iranian naval exercises featured missiles that came from an underground launcher. This was new and set off an alarm. Nevertheless, Dubai and other urban centers are still considered safe zones.”
Last week’s agreement, brokered by US President Donald Trump, established diplomatic relations between the two countries for the first time, while Israel halted plans to annex swaths of the West Bank.
Ali Abdullah Al-Ahmed, the UAE ambassador to France, told the French-language edition of Arab News there was more to come. “What will follow will not be confined to the political level but will equally cover the economic, technological, and academic levels,” he said.
“It is highly possible that the tempo of the development of these relations will be faster, we will see.” The ambassador rejected claims that the Palestinians had been betrayed. “We do not negotiate in the name of the Palestinians and it is not up to us to do so,” he said.
“Our position regarding the Palestinian cause is in line with the Arab consensus regarding Jerusalem and other parameters of Arab unanimity, we adhere to them and we do not relinquish them.”…
Mike says
let them eat each other
just another temper tantrum by Iran
wpm says
Iran economy has been on the ropes ready to fall this could be the knock down punch for it,s shite run government.They are isolating themselves from the rest of the Islamic world(which is Sunni for the most part).UAE wants some kind of peace plan because Iran is more a threat to them then Israel,or America or Western Europe, economically , in the area or terrorism or out right war. The Palestinians are “throw away” people to the members of the UAE to be used if their usefulness is gone the UAE could care less about them.If they did care they would have let them immigrate as refugees to the UAE countries (where they really came from 75 years ago).Wait Sunni Muslims worry about the real suffering of of lower class third world Sunni Muslims letting them immigrate to their countries I must be dreaming.They rather have them move into first class non-Muslim countries live on the dole and bankrupt the evil west or blow Jews up in Israel that is the extent to their usefulness to the UAE. The Palestinian tin pot leaders for life would keep stealing from their own people as long as they(the leaders)keep the fairy tale alive that Israel and America enjoy keeping them under them as “repression ” wards of the state using American and Israel taxpayers .The leaders of Palestine enjoy their off shore banking,their mansions in France,while most of their people live in hovels screaming kill the Jew.
lucretia macevil says
Yes, wpm, the ‘Palestinians’ are nothing more than useful pawns and professional victims. If not, they would have had refugee status stripped from them eons ago.
John says
When is Trump going to fulfill his campaign promise to make Arabian oil countries pay the USA the billions of dollars US taxpayers pay defending them and their oil from Iran?
Mike Stevens says
Attack the UAE? Good luck with that! Two of the most heavily armed and sophisticated militaries on the planet, and now ‘friends’ of the UAE – the US and Israel – are very unlikely to stand by and watch. Iran will be razed to the ground in days.
lucretia macevil says
and good riddance! I DO feel sorry for those Iranians who don’t want any part of this though
gravenimage says
Iran: ‘The UAE’s great betrayal of the Palestinian people will turn this country into a legitimate and easy target’
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Somehow I don’t see Iran attacking fellow Muslims any time soon–besides which all of Dar-al-Islam would see this as an attack on Sunni Islam by the “Rafidite” dogs…