Tehran issues cryptic warning after UAE controversy

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has posted a cryptic message on social media in Arabic: “He who betrays in secret will be exposed in public.”

The post comes amid escalating rhetoric from Tehran following reports that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a secret visit to the United Arab Emirates during the US-Israeli attacks on Iran.

Earlier, Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi accused unnamed regional actors of “collusion with Israel” and warned they would “be held to account.”