Arabic → English transcript

Militarily, there has been a successful interception, praise be to God.

Politically, how do the efforts to counter this look?

Honestly, let us look from the beginning: the UAE was prepared, not just at this moment,

but by virtue of the leadership’s vision, and the leadership’s vision is not only for this issue,

but has long been for the situations in the region,

and also the proactive analysis and foresight of threats and risks.

Praise be to God, the leadership—may their lives be prolonged—prepared the state for such situations,

they prepared the state for such hardships and such moments.

Therefore I can say that the United Arab Emirates

now has a comprehensive, all-encompassing defense,

militarily, politically, diplomatically, and in terms of security,

and also in terms of preparing society, even in terms of the narrative,

and in terms of confronting the counterattack, whether in the media or their false narratives,

because in our position of self-defense as well,

we are proving that the Iranian aggression against us is unjustified

and cannot be accepted under any pretext or in any language

that would lead to offering any excuses for this aggression.

This is unjustified aggression, given that first of all we were not a party to this war.

We tried to prevent reaching this war.

We also pursued a policy of restraint, of self-restraint.

And we are still being subjected to this brutal aggression by Iran.

And as you follow and see, it is repeated and targets civilian sites and facilities.

Energy centers, airports, and ports.

Including targeting diplomatic premises and political premises.

And this contradicts their narrative, in fact, with Ali Al-Wazir.

The Iranian narrative in the first place is unacceptable, and unacceptable to the entire world.

When the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Jordan went

to the United Nations Security Council and submitted the draft resolution,

the draft resolution received the support, backing, and sponsorship of 136 countries.

Yes.

And this also shows that the entire world does not accept the Iranian narrative.

Nor does it accept the Iranian justifications.

And these justifications are not acceptable in the first place.