{"id":49011,"date":"2026-04-24T18:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49011"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:04:35","slug":"uae-says-rebuilding-trust-with-iran-will-take-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49011","title":{"rendered":"UAE says rebuilding trust with Iran will take &#8216;ages&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Rebuilding trust between Abu Dhabi and Tehran will take &#8220;ages and ages&#8221;, Emirati\u00a0presidential adviser Anwar Gargash said on Friday\u00a0after Iran targeted the United Arab Emirates during the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t be attacked with 2,800 missiles and drones and then talk to me about trust. That will take ages and ages,&#8221; Gargash said at a World Policy Conference in the town of Chantilly, north of Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The top official said that 89% of the Iranian attacks targeted &#8220;civilians, civilian infrastructure, energy infrastructure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tehran was telling the Arab Gulf countries that &#8216;you don&#8217;t matter in my calculations&#8217;,\u00a0and I think this is going to last for a very long time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the region \u2014\u00a0to the United Arab Emirates and other countries, Iran will be seen as a strategic threat,&#8221; Gargash said.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli-US strikes on Iran in late February sparked regionwide conflict, with Tehran targeting US allies in the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Pakistan clears $3.45b loan to UAE after final $1b payment: SBP<\/p>\n<p>A ceasefire was agreed at the start of the month, but peace talks in Pakistan have stalled in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Since the truce, the US and Iran have shifted their focus to the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway through which a fifth of the world&#8217;s oil and liquefied natural gas exports ordinarily flow.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has all but closed it in retaliation for the war, while the US has imposed a blockade of its own on Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<p>Gargash said earlier this month he thought Israeli influence in the Gulf would increase as a result of Iran&#8217;s strategy in the region.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebuilding trust between Abu Dhabi and Tehran will take &#8220;ages and ages&#8221;, Emirati\u00a0presidential adviser Anwar Gargash said on Friday\u00a0after Iran targeted the United Arab Emirates during the Middle East conflict. &#8220;You can&#8217;t be attacked with 2,800 missiles and drones and then talk to me about trust. That will take ages and ages,&#8221; Gargash said at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}