Iranian state TV put a UAE flag downrange during a live-air firearms segment, then broadcast it nationally. Tehran and Abu Dhabi have no formal diplomatic relations, but the UAE hosts roughly 200,000 Iranian nationals and processes billions in bilateral trade annually. Shooting the neighbor's flag on state television is not an accident of programming.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that Tehran welcomes any country that can help advance diplomacy, particularly China. "We are strategic partners to each other and we know that the Chinese have a good intention," he said while speaking to a section of media persons on the conclusion of the BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting in the Indian capital New Delhi.

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Iranians do not recognize the Islamic Revolutionary regime that has only been around for 47 years and has imposed radical Islamic ideology for decades, while the Iranian people are being held hostage by Islamists. The Iranian people stand under the Iranian flag with red, white, and dark green colors and the Lion and Sun emblem that traces back to Cyrus the Great 2,500 years ago