Iran hits out at UAE during BRICS meet, calls it 'an aggressor, not merely an accomplice to aggression'

At the second session of the BRICS Foreign Ministers meet in New Delhi, Iran issued a sharp rebuttal to the UAE after its Minister of State for Foreign Affairs accused Tehran of attacking the Emirates. Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, rejected the allegations and said the UAE had played a substantial role in "supporting and facilitating the military aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran". The Embassy of Iran shared details of his remarks on Thursday.