An Iraqi resistance group known as the True Promise Brigades has on Thursday vowed to launch major attacks on the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
“Your facilities, towers, ports, and stations are legitimate targets for us. It will not benefit you and will not protect you, those who cannot protect their forces, bases, and ships from our strikes,” the group said in a statement on its Telegram social media channel, addressing the UAE.
“And their punishment will not be limited to drones and long-range missiles,” according to the statement.
“Take the opportunity before we bring you back to before 1971,” the statement advised the UAE, threatening to return the UAE to Bedouin lifestyle before the establishment of a modern society of the UAE due to the oil wealth.
On January 2, The Iraqi faction had claimed the responsibility for an earlier attack that was carried out by four drones on vital facilities in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi.
The group called on the UAE to “lift its hand and stop interfering in the Yemeni and Iraqi affairs, and to withdraw its mercenaries, fighters, security and politicians.”
The Iraqi group warned that “the upcoming strikes will be even more severe and painful.