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UAE slams Iran for plotting to "dominate" Mideast through violence, weapons

Xinhua,December 19, 2017 Adjust font size:

DUBAI, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- A senior official of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) blasted on Monday Iran for performing "expansionist Arab adventures" in Syria and Yemen.

In three tweets on his account on Twitter, Anwar Gargash, the UAE minister of state for foreign affairs, said Iran's foreign policy in the Middle East is based on three pillars with an aim to dominate the region.

They include defending Iran's missile program which is not defensive, justifying an extended military presence in Syria, and attempting to cover the Houthi rebels in Yemen "politically," Gargash said.

The UAE minister slammed Tehran for its "expansionist adventures in the Arab world," adding that the Islamic Republic's control based on violence and weapons "lacks legitimacy."

The UAE and Saudi Arabia accuse Iran of providing ballistic missiles and related operational training for the Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The Houthis have been fighting a Saudi-led Arab coalition which has intervened militarily in the civil war in Yemen since March 2015, in a bid to restore Yemen's President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who was ousted by the Houthis in September 2014. Enditem

 

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