Saad Hariri: A Clear Message in the Attack on the Emirates...

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri indicated that "all pretexts have fallen and the story has become clearer than can be told and more evident than can be argued."

Hariri said, in a statement, that "Iran justified its previous aggression against Gulf states with a flimsy pretext that American attacks were launched from their territories, although the denial was clear, and the positions of the Gulf states were explicit before the war, rejecting the use of their territories as a launchpad or passage for any aggression against Iran."

He pointed out that "nevertheless, the propaganda machine in Tehran and its axis continued to repeat the same narrative as if repetition would grant it credibility it lacked from the start. But what happened yesterday left no room for a new illusion. The narrative fell and the scene appeared in its true form. It is a direct attack without masks, without preludes, and without the need for pretexts. A single approach to Iranian policy has emerged, whose title is aggression. An approach that no longer hides behind rhetoric or justification, and its goal is clear and blatant, which is to impose force with the logic of bullying that sees nothing in the neighborhood but a space to be violated."

He stressed that "the attack on the Emirates was not a passing event, but a clear message targeting the civilizational and political antithesis of the Iranian regime. It is an overt attempt to target a model that chose construction in the face of destruction, and openness where windows were closed, and succeeded where failures accumulated in the records of the Tehran regime. The Emirati model has always been a mirror that daily reflects the story of the failure of the Iranian regime's adventures, the cost of which its people paid, and due to which wealth was depleted and opportunities eroded. With the fall of pretexts, the narratives receded, and nothing remained but a frank reality called aggression, and its title is bullying, while its essence is an extended record from Lebanon to Syria to Iraq to Yemen to the Gulf and beyond. A record full of blackmail, threats, shelling, bombing, and planting militias without deterrence from law or restraint from respect for good neighborliness. In this scene, the truth does not need embellishment, nor does the language tolerate more equivocation. When the picture is exposed to this extent, words become merely a description of what is existing and gloomy, nothing more."

He considered that "what is happening is not a passing incident, but a continuous approach that justifications have failed to cover, and its narratives no longer convince anyone, foremost among them those who paid its cost internally before externally. It is an approach of depleting wealth and tampering with the legacy of a great people, in addition to sabotaging their present and confiscating their future, and then using them and using their issues as fuel for aggression against their surroundings and the world."