TENSION RISES BETWEEN IRAN AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

rough first draft

BY WAY OF BACKGROUND

For a long time now the United Arab Emirates has seemed to have become a spy and operations’ station for the harmful idiots in their war with Iran. (Iran likely has at least as many spies in the U.A.E. as the harmful idiots.) The U.A.E., in particular Dubai, had been Iran’s economic lungs, so to speak. The Islamic Republic has used the U.A.E. to lessen the impact of sanctions imposed against it by the United States and (mostly) NATO countries. (China loves it.)

There’s a tad of an Israeli angle to this. Syrian news sources (the peripheral ones -- I’ll explain some other time) had in the recent past talked about Israeli “penetration” of the UAE -- that former Israeli generals and intelligence officers have entered the UAE as part of “Western” companies that had won security contracts. A while ago, I’ve reported in this blog that Iranian travelers were being subjected to higher security procedures at the Dubai airport

The U.A.E. contests the Iranian claim of sovereignty over three islands in the Persarab Gulf, the largest (I believe) being Abu Musa. Iran currently occupies these islands. I’ve always thought of these islands as Arab. But I don’t know the history of the controversy. The harmful idiots and the Israelis likely are taking advantage of the frustration the U.A.E. feels about losing these islands. But, frankly, with Arab Iraq gone, I don’t see the U.A.E. ever regaining them. The harmful idiots will use these islands to get their way with the U.A.E.; but the harmful idiots would never want to risk war for these islands. (If war happens, the harmful idiots are unlikely to want to occupy Iranian territory, inluding these islands, anyway, since a war of attrition agaisnt them would ensue.) For now, the islands are Iran’s. The U.A.E. doesn’t have the troops to fight a “crew”(gang) from Washington, D.C. , let alone Iran.

The harmful idiots, likely with the Israelis and the British, have been making attempts at dislodging Iran from the U.A.E., fully, as part of their policy of tightening the screws on the de facto blockade against Iran. There also have been signs that the harmful idiots have been directing the U.A.E.’s foreign policy in full. It has seemed like the U.A.E.’s Foreign Minister is a full-time agent of the harmful idiots and the Israelis, being handled by these. Consider, for instance, his visit with Mahmoud Abbas (the cargo getter of our tax money for his men’s villas in Jordan) in Ramallah where he went through Tel Aviv and not through Amman. His visit in retrospect had seemed like the prologue for the Israeli savagery against Gaza. Consider, in contrast, that the Islamic deputy to Kuwait’s parliament, Dr. Walid Tabtabaii (he dons a hugely Islamic beard, very comforting to non-Muslims) made his way to Gaza to survey the damage of Israel’s savagery and mass murder by sneaking across the border from Egypt.


IRAN WARNS THE U.A.E.

Things must’ve gotten pretty bad for Iran to recently issue a battery of warnings to the U.A.E. :

1. Ali Larijani, Speaker of the Islamic Shura Council (parliament) told the U.A.E. to change its behavior towards Iranian travelers or else risk retaliation by the Shura Council. He said that the Shura Council’s demand is serious; that the deputies to parliament have serious misgivings about the treatment of Iranian travelers. In addition, he warned that the U.A.E. continues to float hostile controversies (he means the islands) risking the sizeable trade exchange between the two countries.

[NOTE: One of the mistakes I made in this blog was to have been the first to have raised the issue of the islands soon after the harmful idiot occupation of Arab Iraq. Let me correct my mistake. O Harmful Idiots, hear me well: the Arab public will side with Iran on the issue of the islands and not with your Emirati self-hating Arab dummy leaders -- no offense intended. The fact that the Syrian (peripheral) press has highlighted Israeli military “penetration” of the U.A.E. is signal to the Arab and Muslim public to hate the U.A.E. rulers, not to love them. The prototype for your success in the region is Arab Qatar: Arab and Muslim, keeping a polite distance from the Israelis. The Israelis will screw up your plans -- as they had -- any and every days. The U.A.E. rulers, by accepting to be handled in part by the Israelis, will never curry any sympathy from the Arab public. Get it?]

2. Manuchehr Mutaki, Iran’s Foreign Minister, affirmed Iran’s intent on defending to death each and every inch of its territory. (He means the islands.) He affirmed that Iran’s sovereignty over the island of Abu Musa is a “clear and documented matter.” (Why didn’t he mention the other two islands? A lure to the U.A.E.?) Mutaki had been responding to questions from parliament deputies both about the “expansionist desires” of the U.A.E. (The islands) and about that country’s alleged interference in Iranian domestic affairs. (Likely a reference to the fact that the U.A.E. has become a harmful idiot spy and operational base against Iran.)


3. Ali Zari’i Najfadri (sp.–remember: my sources are mostly Arabic), adviser to the Iranian president, warned the U.A.E. of the repercussions of its mistreatment of Iranian travelers. He reminded the Emirates that these had become the commercial center of the region thanks to Iranian capital. He warned of economic retaliation against the U.A.E. such as canceling its share of the investment (or the share of Emirati investors -- it’s unclear) in a cellular communication project in Iran. (He's too nice. Iran an do way more things to the U.A.E. than canceling an investment, but it would risk severe losses to Iranian capital in the U.A.E.)

U.A.E.’s RESPONSE

I looked at alkhaleej.co.ue and akhbaralarab.co.ue -- two U.A.E. dailies. I didn’t find much of a response. One article in alkhaleej.co.ue , not prominently-placed, said that the Iranian Ambassador had warned against giving too much credence to the information about mistreatment of Iranian travelers. (He’s Iran’s ambassador to the U.A.E.; so he has to say that.) The U.A.E. obviously would like to avoid the entire controversy. It’s as if it’s saying, “It’s the harmful idiots and their tool, the Diaspora Boys, who are doing all of this. Us? We’re helpless. But hey, maybe we’ll get those islands back, anyway. Meanwhile, we'll let the harmful idiots and the Diaspora Boys and the Israelis form a state-within-a-state in the U.A.E. and run our foreign policy, since all we care about is money. Still, maybe, just maybe, we'll get the islands back. Won't we?”

Forgive my harshness, but it’s anchored in realism: Dream on.