Abu Dhabi, March 8 -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday refuted reports of an attack on Iran's desalination plant, emphasising that it will not treat the Iranian people the way the Iranian regime has acted over the past week.

In a post on X, Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, member of the UAE Federal National Council and Chairman of the Defense Affairs, Interior & Foreign Affairs Committee, slammed the reports as "fake news", stating that the country has the "courage" to announce such actions if it had carried them out.

"This is fake news. When we do something, we've the courage to announce it," Al Nuaimi said.

"The UAE will never place the Iranian people in the same basket as the Iranian regime. The Iranian people are the real victims of t...