The United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is a staunch supporter of the US and Israeli regime, has called for the war on Iran to continue.
Several US and Israeli installments in the UAE have been targeted by Iran as part of its True Promise 4 operations.
Speaking at the emergency virtual Arab League meeting, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khalifa bin Shaheen Al Marar blamed the Islamic Republic for the US and Israeli attacks. He told the meeting that Iran is a threat in the region, despite the US violating several negotiating processes, and its murder of more than 170 people – mainly children – at a school in Iran’s Minab region.
The Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has meanwhile, in an open letter, called on US citizens to question their government’s motives for war, while also denying claims made by US President Donald Trump that Iran’s “new regime president” has asked for a ceasefire.
The Iranian president asserted to the American people that Iran has never started a war, and that Iran has no hostility towards the American citizens. He instead bemoaned the attacks on Iran’s infrastructure and the targeting of of the Iranian people, signalling that these will have consequences beyond the country’s border. Pezeshkian says this is Iran’s legitimate right to self-defence, and not an act of aggression.
The United Kingdom is in the meantime planning to convene talks with dozens of countries on the restrictions at the Strait of Hormuz. The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK would host a virtual meeting of 35 countries on Thursday – 2nd April – to assess measures to “reopen” the strait “after the fighting has stopped”.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it fired more than 100 heavy missiles and attack drones, targeting American and Zionist positions throughout the occupied territories.
According to the IRGC, strikes targeted military objectives and terrorist forces of the Zionist regime in Eilat, Tel Aviv, and Bnei Brak, resulting in many casualties. Israel however has tight censorship rules and cannot be trusted for their accounts of the impact of the damage inflicted.
On the Strait of Hormuz, the IRGC says it remains “decisively and firmly under the control of the IRGC Navy”.
The IRGC further disclosed that Tuesday’s naval assault on a gathering of American officers in the UAE confirmed that 37 individuals were killed, with many others wounded and transported to local hospitals.
