Asenior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader issued a pointed warning to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, saying “imported security has an expiration date” as tensions between Tehran and Abu Dhabi continue to rise.
“A neighbor remains, and a guest leaves,” Ali Akbar Velayati, a former foreign minister and longtime foreign-policy adviser to the supreme leader, wrote on X.
He was referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Abu Dhabi last Sunday, where he met UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said Wednesday that hosting US military bases had not brought the UAE security and warned that hosting Netanyahu would likewise not have “positive consequences.”
The warnings come after months of sharply deteriorating relations during the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Tehran repeatedly struck the UAE, while reports of growing Emirati-Israeli security cooperation, including Israel’s deployment of an Iron Dome battery and personnel to the UAE, fueled anger in Iran.
Tensions were further heightened by an attempted attack aboard a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, with US President Donald Trump saying investigators were examining a possible Iranian connection, although no evidence of Tehran’s involvement has been made public.
Abu Dhabi has maintained that it is not a party to the war and did not allow its territory, waters or airspace to be used for attacks on Iran.
‘Imported security expires’
Velayati also attacked the UAE over its renewed claim to Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunb, three strategically located Persian Gulf islands controlled by Iran and claimed by Abu Dhabi.
“A country whose political life does not reach half a century makes claims from the UN podium about islands that have been recorded under Iran’s name in historical documents and maps from past centuries,” he wrote.
“Geography does not change with statements.”
The UAE renewed its call at the UN General Assembly last weekend for the dispute to be settled through direct negotiations or the International Court of Justice. Iran rejects the UAE’s sovereignty claim.
Velayati accused the UAE of hypocrisy for invoking “Arab rights” and “Islamic solidarity” a week after hosting Netanyahu, before ending with the warning: “The experience of the region has shown that imported security has an expiration date.”
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