A senior United Arab Emirates official has told Royce that it too might seek the right to enrich uranium that Iran has asserted under the recently signed nuclear deal.
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According to Al Jazeera, the Sunni Arab Gulf States perceived the nuclear deal with Shiite Iran, as a security threat for the region.
In a 2009 agreement with the USA, the UAE promised not to engage in uranium enrichment or the reprocessing of spent fuel to extract plutonium.
Hassan Qashqavi said the nine teachers detained in the Arab kingdom were released on Friday night through efforts by Iran’s Foreign Ministry and the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to the UAE. They were taken into custody on October 7.
Iran provides teaching staff for 10 Iranian schools in the UAE which serve an emigre population estimated in the hundreds of thousands, and it summoned the Emirati charge d’affaires earlier this week to protest the teachers’ detention.
Iran’s foreign ministry had summoned the UAE’s charge d’affaires to Tehran over the case.
An Iranian teacher from a different school in the UAE, who asked not to be identified, confirmed that nine teachers at the Al Ain Iranian Private School had been detained and were awaiting trial.
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The UAE says the arrested teachers were only permitted to work in Dubai and no permission was issued for working in Abu Dhabi.
