The eighth bulletin - your newsletter (20/2/2022) monitored the interaction through the hashtag "Imam Ali Airport" in the UAE and the Arab world, in addition to the footage published by Iranian media from the opening of the airport during an official ceremony attended by the President of the Civil Aviation Organization and the Commander of the Naval Force in the Revolutionary Guards .

Tweeters considered Iran's opening of the airport a provocative step that may increase the crisis of the three disputed islands with Abu Dhabi, while others called on the UAE to take real steps to stop Iranian violations, according to their expression, and others were surprised by Abu Dhabi's silence, and questioned the nature of its response to this escalatory step, they said. .

In a statement to local websites, the head of the Civil Aviation Organization, Muhammad Mohammadi Bakhsh, said that medium-class planes can land and take off at this airport, and that the inauguration of airlines from various regions to the Greater Tunb Island plays a major role in boosting the morale of the families of the military forces, he said.

Researcher Fahd Al-Ghufaili believes that the UAE is unable to denounce for fear of Houthi missiles, so he wrote, "Iran opens the "Imam Ali" airport on the island of Greater Tunb! The island is one of the three Emirati islands occupied by Iran, but (Mohammed) bin Zayed cannot even condemn or object Because Houthi missiles will be on the lookout for him."

While Masoud al-Qanboui accused the UAE of selling the islands to Iran, he said, "Read history well to know that the islands are Iranian islands.. Read history to know the price at which the Emirates sold those islands to Iran during the Shah's era. The secret is in the distinguished relations between Iran and the UAE.

Ali Al-Kaabi denounced the Emirati silence towards the Iranian move, and tweeted, "The Emirates today changed from the Emirates yesterday at all levels, economically and politically, how do we allow Iran to take an inch and be silent! (And such a thing) from a country between which there are borders.”

The tweeter Khaled also called on the UAE to use its soft power to restore the islands. He wrote, "The UAE has soft and military power as well, not the emirates of the last century, and Iran must understand and be reminded of the temperature in the occupied islands daily in the news bulletins, and this is the weakest of faith."

In turn, Abdullah Al-Obaywi suggested to the UAE to stop trading with Iran to put pressure on it. He said, "If the UAE cuts its commercial dealings with Iran - which breaks the ban on international sanctions - it will cause pressure and damage to Iran's economy."

Emirati reply

On the other hand, Emirati academic Abdul Khaliq Abdullah described Iran as a permanent headache, writing, "Iran continues to ignore the principle of good neighborliness and provoke the UAE by opening today an airport (an airport) on the UAE's Greater Tunb Island and transforming its brutal occupation of the Emirates islands into a settlement occupation that is no different from the Israeli settlement occupation of Palestine. The least that can be said about this intransigent Iranian neighbor is that it is a permanent headache.”

After the controversy raised by Abdul-Khaleq Abdullah's tweet and the responses to it about good neighborliness, he said in another tweet, "The UAE is keen on the principle of good neighborliness and not to fabricate battles with a difficult opponent and to resolve the issue of the occupation of the islands by peaceful and legal means, as is the case with civilized countries that have border disputes. It is unfortunate that Some are bidding on the UAE as if they are more careful than it and its right to its occupied islands than Iran.”