Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa tweeted on Thursday: “As long as Iran is disrupting the regional status quo and is encroaching on countries with its forces and missiles, then any country in the region, including Israel, has the right to defend itself and destroy the origin of the threat.”

طالما ان ايران اخلّت بالوضع القائم في المنطقة و استباحت الدول بقواتها و صواريخها ، فإنه يحق لأي دولة في المنطقة و منها اسرائيل ان تدافع عن نفسها بتدمير مصادر الخطر .

— خالد بن ‏أحمد (@khalidalkhalifa) May 10, 2018

Ms Coates said Mr Trump’s policies on issues of Iran and Israel “is not upsetting any regional balance; in fact, his leadership is what’s bringing the region together.”

Also Friday, Foreign Policy reported that Richard Johnson, the US acting assistant coordinator in the State Department’s Office of Iran Nuclear Implementation, has resigned his position.

The resignation appears to be a protest for US leaving the Iran deal. In his departing email, Mr Johnson wrote “I am proud to have played a small part in this work, particularly the extraordinary achievement of implementing the [deal] with Iran, which has clearly been successful in preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” he wrote.

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