UAE hits back at ‘threats’ from Iran following Israel deal
- Iranian President Rowhani said the UAE’s decision to normalise ties with Israel was a ‘big mistake’
- UAE said on Sunday that such rhetoric ‘was unacceptable and inflammatory’
The UAE on Sunday summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires in Abu Dhabi to protest “threats” by the Islamic republic’s president over the Emirati decision to normalise ties with Israel, state media reported.
The foreign ministry “summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires (and) handed him a strong note of protest against the threats contained in Iranian President Hassan Rowhani’s speech regarding the UAE’s sovereign decisions,” the official WAM news agency reported.
That came a day after Rowhani said the UAE’s decision to normalise ties was a “big mistake” and warned “against opening the path of Israel to the region”.
Without expanding on what that would mean, he said it “would be another story and they will be dealt with in another way,” Iran’s Mehr news agency reported.
UAE said on Sunday that such rhetoric “was unacceptable and inflammatory and had serious implications for security and stability in the Gulf region.”