Amir Abdollahian: UAE, Bahrain to Face Challenges over Normalization Deal with ‘Israel’
Special Aide to Iran’s Parliament Speaker on International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates would experience “major” challenges on a domestic level after signing an agreement on the normalization of ties with the Zionist entity.
“In the near future, rulers of the UAE and Bahrain, who announced the normalization of ties [with Israel], will face problems and major challenges within their countries,” Abdollahian said in an interview with Sputnik published on Tuesday.
The normalization act was taking place under “tremendous” pressure on Manama and Abu Dhabi from the United States, the Iranian diplomat added, noting that the Gulf states had no say in the matter.
When giving a comment on media reports that emerged in late February on forming a four-nation defense alliance between the occupation regime, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain against Iran, Abdollahian said it is a fraud.
“[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s claims on the creation of such alliances is nothing but a lie,” Amir-Abdollahian said.
An agreement, officially known as the Abraham Accords, on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Zionist entity and the two Gulf nations- the UAE and Bahrain – was signed in Washington last September. Morocco and Sudan later followed suit, inking similar agreements with the Zionist regime.