Zionist Ambassador to UN:

Arab States, Israel Coordinating Anti-Iran Moves

Date: 29 September 2019 - 22:48

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UNITED NATIONS (Dispatches) – The occupying regime of Israel’s ambassador to the UN says Tel Aviv and various Arab countries have been working together at the UN and elsewhere against Iran.
In a phone interview with the Jerusalem Post, Danny Danon said Tel Aviv was planning a number of actions against Tehran at the UN, adding although Arab states were not co-sponsors, but there was "cooperation” between them.
The Zionist regime and several Arab countries, he said, were coordinating efforts to "reveal” what he called "the true face of the Iranians.”
Israel has full diplomatic ties with only two Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, but latest reports suggest Tel Aviv is working behind the scenes to establish formal contacts with such countries as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain by trying to portray Iran as a common threat.
Danon compared the Arab states’ attitude towards Iran before the 2015 nuclear deal and that of the current time, where Washington’s withdrawal from the accord in May 2018 and the Europeans’ failure to fulfill their commitments under the agreement has left its fate in limbo.
Dannon claimed the Arab countries were content to let the Zionist regime lead the battle against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) prior to its signing, but they are now actively involved with Israel in conveying the message of the alleged Iranian threat.
He cited the participation of Saudi Arabia’s Persian Gulf Affairs Minister Thamer al-Sabhan and UAE Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef al-Otaiba, alongside the Zionist regime’s ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer, in an anti-Iran summit in New York last Wednesday, as an instance of coordination between Tel Aviv and Arab countries.
Danon also claimed that recent raids by Yemeni forces against key Saudi oil facilities "made the Iranian threat much more real” for many Arab countries at the UN. "They are taking it much more seriously.”
The Yemeni Houthi Ansarullah movement took credit for the September 14 air raids on two Aramco installations, saying they were a response to the Saudi-led war on their country.
However, Riyadh and Washington — the main sponsor of the war on Yemen — pointed the finger at Iran, without providing any evidence.
Last month, the New York Times reported the United States is participating in secret talks between the United Arab Emirates and the occupying regime of Israel to confront Iran.
The talks aim to broaden cooperation for military and intelligence sharing between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, it quoted a foreign official with knowledge of the diplomacy as saying.
The United Arab Emirates and the Zionist regime already share some security connections, experts said, and have held below-the-radar discussions in the past. The occupying regime of Israel has sold fighter jet upgrades and spyware to the United Arab Emirates, the Times said.
But including the United States in a new phase of security talks could signal the United Arab Emirates’ intent to demonstrate their commitment to the Trump administration’s so-called maximum pressure campaign against Iran — even as Emirati officials have stepped back from some of their own hardline policies targeting Tehran, the paper said.
The three-sided talks, which were first reported by the Wall Street Journal, grew out of a February conference in Warsaw that was billed as a Middle East security forum but was used by the Trump administration to push its campaign against Iran. Since then, the three allies have met twice, the report said.
The United Arab Emirates and other Arab states are generally careful to avoid appearing too close to the Zionist regime, given longstanding disputes over the rights of Palestinians and access to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem Al-Quds, one of the holiest sites in Islam.
Ilan Goldenberg said it was surprising that Emirati officials would agree to allow the United States into the longstanding and secretive talks with Israel.
"It is a sign they are willing to lean further forward, that they are not as worried about secrecy as they were,” said Goldenberg, who worked on regional security issues at the State Department and Pentagon during the Obama administration.