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===Present situation=== Shortly after the Iranian seizure, there would be a [[1972 Sharjawi coup d'état attempt|failed coup]] in [[Sharjah]] led by the Arab nationalist former Sheikh [[Saqr bin Sultan Al Qasimi]] in part due to the UAE's response to the seizure.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Razzaq Takriti |first1=Abdel |title=Colonial Coups and the War on Popular Sovereignty |journal=[[The American Historical Review]] |date=June 2019 |volume=124 |issue=3 |pages=xii–xiv |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/124/3/878/5509795?login=false |access-date=24 December 2024}}</ref> In the following decades, the issue remained a source of friction between the Arab states and Iran. The [[Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf]] repeatedly declared support for the UAE claims. Bilateral talks between the UAE and Iran in 1992 failed. The UAE have attempted to bring the dispute before the [[International Court of Justice]],<ref>[http://www.hiik.de/konfliktbarometer/pdf/Konfliktbarometer_2001.pdf Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229133058/http://www.hiik.de/konfliktbarometer/pdf/Konfliktbarometer_2001.pdf |date=2008-02-29 }}</ref> but Iran refuses to do so. Tehran says the islands always belonged to it as it had never renounced possession of the islands, and that they are an integral part of Iranian territory.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/iran_uae_saudi.html |title=Safa Haeri |access-date=2006-10-04 |archive-date=2016-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307202313/http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/iran_uae_saudi.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The emirate of [[Ras al-Khaimah]] argue that the islands were under the control of [[Al Qasimi|Qasimi sheikhs]], a branch of which administered the port of [[Bandar Lengeh]] for the Persian government from ca. 1789 to 1887,<ref name= "Iranica"/> and UAE as the successor to the tribal patrimony of the tribe, may inherit their rights. Iran counters by stating that the local Qasimi rulers during a crucial part of the previous centuries were actually based on the Iranian, not the Arab, coast, and had thus has been Persian subjects.<ref>Schofield: 35–37</ref> The UAE refers to the islands as "occupied".<ref>[http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/government/islands-issue-mars-iran-uae-ties-abdullah-tells-fnc-1.615065 "Islands issue mars Iran-UAE ties, Abdullah tells FNC"], ''Gulf News'', 20 April 2010</ref> Currently, these two islands are among the territories under the control and government of Iran, and the Iranian government has established naval military bases on these islands to control the Strait of Hormuz.
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