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Iranian official slams UAE

September 5, 2017 at 2:00 am

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is “a paper tower that can collapse without even missiles,” the Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, Mohsen Rezaee, said todayon his Twitter account.

The Iranian foreign ministry had earlier called on the UAE to stop what it described as “its subversive adventures in the region.”

Last week, the Iranian foreign ministry’s spokesman, Bahram Qasimi, said that the having numerous followers to the UAE may cause problems in the region.”

He also noted to the UAE’s recent attempt “to colonise part of the Yemeni territories and participate in the war against the Yemeni people.”

The Iranian ministry’s remarks came in response to the statements made by the UAE Foreign Minister, Abdullah Bnn Zayed, where he denounced what he described as “Iran and Turkey’s colonial role in Syria.”

Read: UAE must end ‘destructive’ policies in Yemen and Libya says Iran