UAE diplomat Criticizes Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation Response to Iranian Attacks on the Gulf

23/03/2026

UAE diplomat Criticizes Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation Response to Iranian Attacks on the Gulf

ABU DHABI, (AP), Mar 23: An adviser to the UAE has criticized Arab and Islamic organizations’ response to Iran’s continued attacks in the Arab Gulf countries.

“Where are the joint Arab and Islamic labor institutions?” Anwar Gargash said in a social media post on Monday, naming the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Gargash, who is a former state minister for foreign affairs, said it will be “unacceptable” after the war to talk about “the decline of the Arab and Islamic role or to criticize the American and Western presence” in the Gulf region, which hosts U.S. and Western bases.

The UAE, which has close ties with Israel and the U.S., has been the hardest hit by Iranian missiles and drones since the war in the Middle East began on Feb. 28.