{"id":2946,"date":"2023-06-04T19:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2023-06-04T19:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T17:23:31","slug":"uae-reveals-it-withdrew-from-us-led-maritime-coalition-months-agothe-uae-also-refuted-western-media-reports-that-claim-the-country-is-frustrated-over-washingtons-weak-response-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=2946","title":{"rendered":"UAE reveals it withdrew from US-led maritime coalition \u2018months ago\u2019The UAE also refuted western media reports that claim the country is &#8216;frustrated&#8217; over Washington&#8217;s weak response to Iran&#8217;s seizure of oil tankers in Gulf waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The UAE revealed on 31 May that it\u00a0withdrew\u00a0its forces from the US-led \u2018Combined Maritime Forces\u2019 two months ago after evaluating its security agreements.<br \/>\u201cAs a result of our ongoing evaluation of effective security cooperation with all partners, two months ago, the UAE withdrew its participation in the Combined Maritime Forces,\u201d the Emirati Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement carried by state-run news agency WAM.<br \/>The Combined Maritime Forces is a 34-nation task force headquartered in Bahrain, the home of the US Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet.<br \/>Abu Dhabi also denied a Tuesday report by the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0(WSJ) that claimed the country was \u201cfrustrated\u201d over Washington\u2019s weak response to the recent seizure of oil tankers by the Iranian navy, calling the reporting a \u201cmischaracterization\u201d of talks with US officials.<br \/>\u201cGulf officials say the US has failed to do enough to deter attacks in recent years from Iranian proxies, undermining their faith in Washington\u2019s commitment to the region,\u201d the WSJ report claims.<br \/>\u201cThe UAE was particularly incensed by the seizure of [Panama-flagged oil tanker] leaving Dubai because it could have given the impression its waters were unsafe to navigate, the officials said.\u201d<br \/>Despite Abu Dhabi\u2019s denials of the WSJ report, the UAE has been pushing back against US diktats over the past year after Washington\u00a0failed\u00a0to come to the Gulf nation\u2019s aid following Yemeni missiles and drones hit the Emirati capital, killing three people.<br \/>UAE officials were also\u00a0shocked\u00a0during a meeting with the military attach\u00e9 at the US embassy after the second Yemeni strike within days when instead of offering military assistance, the US official handed his Emirati counterparts a bill for refueling their jets.<br \/>\u201cWe certainly took it very, very seriously and felt that we responded in a way that we thought was responsive to our friends in need. Sheikh Mohammed did not feel that way,\u201d State Department councilor Derek Chollet told\u00a0Axios\u00a0earlier this month.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE revealed on 31 May that it\u00a0withdrew\u00a0its forces from the US-led \u2018Combined Maritime Forces\u2019 two months ago after evaluating its security agreements.\u201cAs a result of our ongoing evaluation of effective security cooperation with all partners, two months ago, the UAE withdrew its participation in the Combined Maritime Forces,\u201d the Emirati Ministry of Foreign Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}