Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran currently has good relations with the UAE and is willing to expand them.

Axar.az reports that Pezeshkian made the remarks in an interview with India Today on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit.

“Right now, we have a good relation with the UAE, and we can expand it. And with other countries, the same happens. So we would like to have a sincere relation with all of them,” he said.

“However, it is the U.S. which does not want this to happen. And the reason is that they want to utilise our petroleum reservoirs of the region. Instead, they are selling weapons and missiles to the region. And the reason is that they want to use the U.S. as a weapon against the U.S., in order to scare us from each other and pit us against each other,” Pezeshkian said.

“It is actually exploiting the capital of the region. And also, it is destroying the peace and stability,” he added.