Iranian сleric сalls for UAE to be “wiped off the face of the earth”

Iranian religious reciter and eulogist Hossein Taheri has made inflammatory remarks about the United Arab Emirates, saying it should be “wiped off the face of the earth” if it were involved in a reported attack on Bandar Abbas.

Speaking on Thursday night, May 7, Taheri said that “if the UAE has done something wrong” and was behind the reported attack, it “must be erased from the map of the world.”

Taheri is a prominent maddah — a religious singer and reciter who performs at Shi’ite ceremonies — and is known to have close ties to conservative and religious circles in Iran.

By Tamilla Hasanova