TEHRAN Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdel Meguid yesterday raised the issue of three Iranian islands and analysts here say that he followed the line of Israel which tried to sow seeds of discord among the Muslim Ummah.
Although it was not in the written text of Meguid's speech delivered at the OIC summit meeting, he referred to the misunderstanding existing between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran in connection with three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf, the Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa.
The heads of state of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) met in Doha, Qatar to discuss unity among the Muslim world in the face of Israeli brutality against oppressed Palestinians.
Following the Israeli line, Meguid raised the issue of "misunderstanding" a brainchild of the U.S. and Britain.
On the same line, Israel engineered a hijacking of a Russian plane by a Dagestani who forced the plane to fly and land in Israel.
Both moves that of the hijacker and Meguid were designed to divert international public opinion from Israeli brutality.
The fact is that time and again Iran has announced it is prepared to sit at the negotiating table along with UAE sheikhs in order to remove any misunderstanding.
The sheikhs have not responded; they frequently raise the issue of misunderstanding to please London and Washington.
Before the culmination of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, UAE Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan an-Nahayan visited Iran at least two times. He never raised the issue with Iranians at that time.
However, when the Iraqi regime imposed a war on the newly-born Islamic Republic, Abu Dhabi began raising the issue of misunderstanding over the islands.
"There is still the chance that UAE rulers could sit along with Iranian officials to remove any misunderstanding," an analyst commented.