AL-DHAFRA AIR BASE, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Jared Kushner and U.S. officials visited a major airbase in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, talking to Emirati and U.S. pilots on the runway near the complex F-35 fighter jets that uaE expects to purchase as normalized with Israel.
President Donald Trump’s father-in-law at Al-Dhafra Air Base took a stand just before the departure of the El Al flight that led the US-Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi.This also happened when Iran’s ideal leader called the United Arab Emirates the popularity of Israel.a “betrayal that won’t last long,” an obvious risk that underscores the dangers inherent in rapprochement.
The U.S. delegation arrived in the United Arab Emirates on an El Al plane monday on the first direct advertising passenger flight between the two countries, following an agreement negotiated through the Trump administration last month that saw the two countries identify diplomatic relations..
At the base near Abu Dhabi, Kushner and U.S. national security adviser Robert O’Brien met with Emirati major general Falah al-Qahtani, a senior defense official, where thousands of U.S. infantrymen painted there.
“Our courtship was based on accepting as true and mutual support,” al-Qahtani told reporters.”We are united in the fight against extremism in all its forms.”
O’Brien added that the United States expected a “significant security aspect” in the standardization between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, giving additional details.The hounds also visited a joint command center throughout the United States and the United Arab Emirates on the site..
Kusher, dressed in a mask in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, shook hands with the American and Emirati pilots accumulated for the event and left a written message at the base.
“May quotations with America continue to expand and that together, through force, they gain advantages as we bring more peace and prosperity to the Middle East and beyond!”He wrote.
But when the scale en came to an end, the state media in Iran began to issue comments through Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who called Israel’s popularity of Israel a “stain” in the country.
“The United Arab Emirates has committed treason, either in opposition to the Islamic world or in opposition to Arab nations and countries in the region, as well as Palestine,” Khamenei said.”The betrayal may not last long.”
The United Arab Emirates and Israel express a mutual distrust of Iran.The leader of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has long warned of Iran’s intentions, namely its nuclear program.Netanyahu.
Iran has long insisted that its program has only non-violent purposes, but since Trump unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Tehran has damaged all the limits the deal imposed on his program amid a series of widening incidents in the region.
Comments from an Emirati official from Khamenei.
“The road to peace and prosperity involves incitement and hate speech,” said Jamal al-Musharakh, head of the Foreign Ministry.”This kind of rhetoric is counterproductive to peace in the region.”
Journalists in Al-Dhafra show substitution in dating between the United Arab Emirates and the United States, which concluded defense agreements with the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhs of the Arabian Peninsula, in the midst of the 1991 Gulf War.Emirati special forces deployed in Afghanistan after the 2001 U.S. invasion following the 9/11 attacks.
But for years, the U.S. MilitaryHe has only vaguely referred to Al-Dhafra as a base in “southwest Asia.”In recent years, the United Arab Emirates has been much more willing to recognize the US’s presence.But it’s not the first time Here and elsewhere in a country that houses about 5,000 American soldiers.Dubai’s Jebel Ali Port is also the U.S. Navy’s most active port of call outside the United States.
Al-Dhafra has hosted the F-35 for years, as well as surveillance aircraft, armed drones and refueling aircraft.The scale of the US delegation at the base of this tour suggests that the sale of the F-35 remains a key detail of the agreement..
The United Arab Emirates has touted the standardization agreement as a tool to force Israel to finalize its controversial plan to annex parts of the West Bank sought through the Palestinians for their long-term status.past inaccessible, like the F-35 fighter. Today, Israel is the only country in the region to have stealth fighter jets.
Netanyahu has publicly denied any link between the standardization agreement and the weapons complex through the United States and the United Arab Emirates.
The Palestinians, however, have vehemently opposed normalization, as it gets rid of one of its few benefits in the moribund peace talks with Israel.Palestinians organized public protests and angrily burned the flag of the United Arab Emirates.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Netanyahu issued a saying that the two countries had signed an agreement on banking and finance.
“These agreements will boost mutual investment and broad cooperation,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
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Associated Press Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to the report.
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