UAE Backpedals on Iran Strike Statement

摘要

The United Arab Emirates is struggling to contain a diplomatic row with Iran that broke out earlier this week after the UAE ambassador to the US appeared to suggest he would back a US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in preference to having a nuclear Iran. Yousef al-Otaiba told a conference in Aspen Tuesday that a military strike would be better than a nuclear Iran. “We cannot live with a nuclear Iran,” he said. “I am willing to absorb what takes place at the expense of the security of the UAE.”