Those islands are ancient property of Iran, you can interpret how you like, nothing changes
Then why did the Shah during the negotiations on the islands with Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah and Britain, wanted to lease the islands from Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah governments.
You dont take on lease something that is already your's.
Why did Iran wait to take the isalnds back till the time when British were leaving, why didn't Iran take it in the early days when the British came to the region or even earlier when the British were not in the region?
In the end Sharjah agreed sharing the Abu Musa with Iran and that Iran will be allowed access to the northern part of Abu Musa and Sharjah will have access to southern part of Abu Musa, and that Sharjah's Flag will be hosted on both the north part and the south part of the island, all this will be in place till a solution is found to the issue of the island and a tiem frame of a certain number of years was set as a deadline to finding the final solution.
But then the islands were taken by force.
Solve borders issues among yourself first, before asking for other countries land
UAE is not only in borders disputes with ALL its neighbors, but also cant decide its own inner borders
The border dispute between some GCC states and within UAE is not being made a hinderance in the bigger dream for the GCC which is the making of a confederation or a compelte union. Sooner or later the fate of the GCC is nothing but a complete union / conederation. Do what ever you want.
Oh well, then probably there will be a new name of the confederation and some will say that the confederation was not existing before 20XX and hence they do not have any history (just like what they say now about UAE and dont know that prior to UAE there were emirates existing for hundreds of years at least and Arabs were living in the region since thousands of years.
Almost all of the south Iran was under the Arab rule and Arabs were inhabitants of the area.
But after the annexure of the area by the Persians almost everything that had resemblance to Arabs was changed gradually to remove the Arabic identity of the place, starting from the names of the streets to the names of the important well known landmarks and even names of the inhabitants as they were forced not to use names used widely by Arabs of the region.
If you visit the area now you will see old barjeel structures (a structure built for cooling purposes in the summer) still standing same as the ones on the southern coast of the Arabian Gulf (coastal areas of UAE and other gulf states) and old women still wearing the Burqa'a برقع (the face cover) used by the native women of gulf states. Some are still trying to keep with the Arab traditions even after the area taken over by the Persians.
The last ruler of the area was Amir Khaza'al al A'mri الأمير خزعل العامري (if i am not mistaken)
If Iran is since thousands of years so are the Arabs of the southern shore of the ARABIAN GULF including UAE along with the Arabs of the Southern part of Iran which was taken over by Iran, again, with force.
