Iran summons UAE envoy after 'obscene' remarks on Ahvaz attack

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned a top United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) diplomat over comments made by an unnamed official from the Gulf country on the recent attack on a military parade in Iran which left at least 25 dead.

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned a top United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) diplomat over comments made by an unnamed official from the Gulf country on the recent attack on a military parade in Iran which left at least 25 dead.

“After the distasteful speech of a UAE political advisor,” Tehran “summoned the UAE chargé d’affaires” and relayed their complaints on “the irresponsible and obscene remarks” mentioned, state-owned news outlet ISNA quoted spokesperson of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bahram Qassemi as saying.

Qassemi added that in the meeting, the Foreign Ministry “warned” the chargé d’affaires that “the blatant support of terrorist activity” by individuals “affiliated” with the country’s public institutions “amounts to [taking] responsibility” for the attacks.

The attack in question took place early morning in the Khuzestan province, in the Iraq-bordering southwestern city of Ahvaz, home to a minority Arab population, and targeted a military parade.

Hours later, both the Islamic State (IS) and the Ahvaz National Resistance, an Arab separatist group from the city, claimed responsibility for the attack. However, neither presented evidence of being the perpetrators.

Various leading officials of the Islamic Regime eventually began to point fingers at regional and international powers as being behind the attack, among which were the US, Israel, and Persian Gulf states.

The meeting with the UAE diplomat came a day after a session with Dutch and Danish ambassadors, as well as the British chargé d’affaires to Iran, who were “informed of Iran’s strong protests over their respective countries’ hosting of some members of the terrorist group,” according to IRNA.

Qassemi claimed they had previously warned the three European governments not to harbor groups they claim are “disruptive,” adding, “It is not acceptable that the European Union does not blacklist members of these terrorist groups as long as they do not perpetrate a crime on European soil.”

Editing by Nadia Riva