Abbas Araghchi Accuses UAE of Direct Involvement in Israeli-US War at BRICS in New Delhi

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of direct involvement in military operations during the Israeli-US war on Iran at a BRICS meeting in New Delhi.

Araghchi said, “But the truth is that the UAE was directly involved in the aggression against my country,” and he added that “When the attacks started, they did not even issue a condemnation.”

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The dispute also followed a claim by Israel’s prime minister’s office that he secretly visited the Emirates during the war, which the UAE denied.

Amwaj.media also cited an informed Iranian political source asserting that Emirati drones attacked mainland Iran during the war, specifically referring to an incident in the southern city of Shiraz.

The BRICS meeting ended on May 15 without a joint statement, with reports that the UAE blocked a final text over its insistence that any condemnation of the war on Iran be removed.

At a BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi, UAE Minister of State Khalifa bin Shaheen Al-Marar “categorically rejected” Iran’s attempts to justify what he called “terrorist attacks” against the Emirates and other Gulf countries.

Al-Marar told the meeting that the UAE rejected “any allegations or threats targeting its sovereignty, national security, or independent decision-making,” and he said the Emirates reserves “full sovereign, legal, diplomatic, and military rights to respond to any threat.”

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Iran’s deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi responded to the UAE’s position by saying Iran “had no option but to target all facilities of US bases in the UAE.”

Gharibabadi described the UAE as “an aggressor,” and he said, “This was a war, and in that war we defended our country.”

In a separate account, the New Region reported Araghchi telling the UAE it “cannot now play the victim and say that our territory has been attacked,” while accusing Abu Dhabi of providing “American bases for operations against Iran” and “its airspace and territory.”

Al Jazeera said the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi ended without a common position on the war on Iran, with the outcome document acknowledging only that “differing views” remained among members.

The bloc’s failure to issue a joint closing statement reflected a divergence between Tehran and Abu Dhabi, with Iran urging explicit condemnation of US and Israeli “violations of international law” while the UAE demanded condemnation of Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure on its soil.

Al Jazeera reported that Araghchi requested the floor again and told the gathering, “The UAE was directly involved in the aggression against my country,” adding, “When the attacks started, they didn’t even issue a condemnation.”

Arab News PK reported that diplomats from BRICS nations failed to issue a joint statement after the two-day meeting, and it quoted India’s closing chair’s statement saying “There were differing views among some members as regards the situation in the West Asia/Middle East region.”

As the meeting unfolded, the UAE’s Al-Marar said since the war started on Feb. 28, the UAE’s air defenses had intercepted around 3,000 drone and missile attacks “that deliberately and directly targeted civilian facilities and critical infrastructure,” while Al-Marar called the closure of the Strait of Hormuz an “act of piracy.”