Chief of Staff General Baqeri:
TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran’s approach to the United Arab Emirates will change, the country’s armed forces chief of staff Major General Muhammad Baqeri said on Sunday, after a deal between the Arab state and the occupying regime of Israel on normalizing ties.
"The Iranian nation’s approach to this neighboring country will certainly change fundamentally, and the armed forces of the Islamic Republic will look at this country with different calculations,” Baqeri said.
"If something happens in the Persian Gulf region and if our national security is damaged, however small, we will hold the UAE responsible for that and we will not tolerate it,” the top commander added.
The UAE and the occupying regime of Israel announced their agreement last week, which U.S. President Donald Trump helped to broker.
Gen. Baqeri described "the great tragedy of establishing relations between the UAE regime and the child-killing Zionist regime” as extremely unfortunate.
"Today, at a time when all the free people of the world are expressing their hatred and avoid establishing relations and friendship with the Zionist regime, one of the neighbors of the Islamic Republic brazenly declares forging relationship with this child-killing regime.
"This is unfortunate because the Zionist regime is struggling for its survival and does not hesitate to take any action for oppression and tyranny in the Islamic world and even against its own people and its neighbors without any regard for Islamic and Jewish principles,” he added.
Gen. Baqeri recommended that the UAE reconsider its decision "before it is too late” and "not continue on a path which is detrimental to its own security and that of the region”.
"It is not at all acceptable for the UAE, as an Arab and Muslim country, to establish political and economic relationship with a regime which has encroached on the first Muslim qibla and displaced, killed and imprisoned the Palestinian people,” he added.
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami also said the United Arab Emirates will be responsible for any insecurity caused in the Persian Gulf if the Zionist regime finds its way to the region with the Arab country’s help.
The deal and normalization of ties between the Zionist regime and the UAE "is treason against the people of Palestine and the people of the region”, he said in Tehran.
"There will be insecurity in the region if they drag Israel here, the responsibility for which will befall on those who created this insecurity. The evil will catch up with them,” the minister added.
The agreement makes the UAE the first Persian Gulf Arab state to establish full diplomatic ties and only the third Arab nation to have active diplomatic ties to the occupying regime of Israel.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) vowed Saturday that there would be dangerous consequences for the United Arab Emirates. The force called the deal a "shameful” agreement and an "evil action” that was underwritten by the U.S.
The Persian daily Kayhan said the United Arab Emirates’ decision to normalize ties with the Zionist regime has made it a "legitimate target” for the resistance forces.
"The UAE’s great betrayal of the Palestinian people and its signing of an agreement to normalize relations with the Zionist regime, if it has only one result, it will be to turn this small, rich country heavily dependent on security into a legitimate and easy target for the resistance,” Kayhan said in a front-page commentary.
The move was an act of "strategic stupidity from Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv which will undoubtedly strengthen the resistance axis in the region,” Iran’s foreign ministry said on Friday.
"The Iranian nation’s approach to this neighboring country will certainly change fundamentally, and the armed forces of the Islamic Republic will look at this country with different calculations,” Baqeri said.
"If something happens in the Persian Gulf region and if our national security is damaged, however small, we will hold the UAE responsible for that and we will not tolerate it,” the top commander added.
The UAE and the occupying regime of Israel announced their agreement last week, which U.S. President Donald Trump helped to broker.
Gen. Baqeri described "the great tragedy of establishing relations between the UAE regime and the child-killing Zionist regime” as extremely unfortunate.
"Today, at a time when all the free people of the world are expressing their hatred and avoid establishing relations and friendship with the Zionist regime, one of the neighbors of the Islamic Republic brazenly declares forging relationship with this child-killing regime.
"This is unfortunate because the Zionist regime is struggling for its survival and does not hesitate to take any action for oppression and tyranny in the Islamic world and even against its own people and its neighbors without any regard for Islamic and Jewish principles,” he added.
Gen. Baqeri recommended that the UAE reconsider its decision "before it is too late” and "not continue on a path which is detrimental to its own security and that of the region”.
"It is not at all acceptable for the UAE, as an Arab and Muslim country, to establish political and economic relationship with a regime which has encroached on the first Muslim qibla and displaced, killed and imprisoned the Palestinian people,” he added.
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami also said the United Arab Emirates will be responsible for any insecurity caused in the Persian Gulf if the Zionist regime finds its way to the region with the Arab country’s help.
The deal and normalization of ties between the Zionist regime and the UAE "is treason against the people of Palestine and the people of the region”, he said in Tehran.
"There will be insecurity in the region if they drag Israel here, the responsibility for which will befall on those who created this insecurity. The evil will catch up with them,” the minister added.
The agreement makes the UAE the first Persian Gulf Arab state to establish full diplomatic ties and only the third Arab nation to have active diplomatic ties to the occupying regime of Israel.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) vowed Saturday that there would be dangerous consequences for the United Arab Emirates. The force called the deal a "shameful” agreement and an "evil action” that was underwritten by the U.S.
The Persian daily Kayhan said the United Arab Emirates’ decision to normalize ties with the Zionist regime has made it a "legitimate target” for the resistance forces.
"The UAE’s great betrayal of the Palestinian people and its signing of an agreement to normalize relations with the Zionist regime, if it has only one result, it will be to turn this small, rich country heavily dependent on security into a legitimate and easy target for the resistance,” Kayhan said in a front-page commentary.
The move was an act of "strategic stupidity from Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv which will undoubtedly strengthen the resistance axis in the region,” Iran’s foreign ministry said on Friday.
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