A senior UAE academic said his country was able to clean up its trade with Iran with a commitment to implement future sanctions on Tehran and that it would relinquish Iranian gas by the end of the year.
"Iran has made a strategic decision to gradually reduce its trade with Iran from $ 20 billion to only $ 12 billion in 2017," Abdul Khaleq Abdullah, an academic close to the decision-makers, wrote in a tweet on Twitter.
"If necessary, the UAE is able and willing to stop trading with Iran once and for all to reach zero in compliance with the severe and right sanctions that are coming on Iran," he added.
Abdullah expressed his conviction that the UAE "will carry out the next sanctions (on Iran) in November with precision and rigor at all costs."
He pointed out that the trade exchange between the UAE and Iran is estimated at 3% of the total foreign trade of the UAE, amounting to 450 billion dollars.
He explained that the most important item in trade between the two countries is "natural gas, which is currently being replaced by alternative sources and guaranteed and preferential prices."
"The Iranian gas will be completely abandoned by the end of 2018," he said.
"I mean, they will only boycott Iran commercially because of America's sanctions," said one of the worshipers.
"Why do not the UAE cut relations with Iran without reason?" Another wrote. "The recent tweets say you have followed America's will and only." A fourth said, "It's a US decision, not an Emirati."
"I hope you can speak in the language of reason, how can the UAE stop all this and it does not produce, manufacture or plant?"