DUBAI, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs urged Thursday the Qatari government to review its strategic "ambition."
Qatar should "have balanced its ambition and its reality" and should have taken into account "its geographical location as a Gulf country and its genetic structure," Anwar Gargash, UAE's second highest diplomat, said on his twitter account.
He posted the remarks hours after Qatar restored full diplomatic ties with Iran, a rival for most Gulf nations.
Qatar cut relations with Iran in January 2016, when Iranian demonstrators attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
Doha "caused the crisis through mismanagement and deepened it," Gargash noted.
The Saudi-led Arab quartet, including the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt, severed ties with Qatar on June 5 and imposed a blockade on the rich tiny Gulf nation, citing its support for terrorism and extremism, interference in their internal affairs, which Doha has repeatedly denied.
