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Iran’s military warned the United Arab Emirates against allowing attacks from its territory targeting Iranian-controlled islands in the Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz.
“We warn the United Arab Emirates if any further aggression originates from its territory against the Iranian islands of Abu Musa and Greater Tunb… Iran’s powerful armed forces will subject Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE to heavy strikes,” Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiya operational command said in a statement carried by Tasnim news agency.
Abu Musa and the Greater Tunb islands are controlled by Iran but claimed by the UAE and have long been a source of dispute between the two countries.
The islands are located near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil normally passes.
Marine traffic in the area has been disrupted by the regional war, which began with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 and has since spread across the Middle East.
Iran has accused Gulf states of allowing U.S. forces to launch attacks from their territory and has carried out missile and drone strikes against what it calls U.S. interests in those countries.
Gulf states have repeatedly denied the accusations, saying even before the war that they would not allow their territory or airspace to be used to attack Iran.
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