Mojtaba Khamenei touts new anti-US alliance as Gulf backchannels seep into Tehran: analyst

Iran's ultimate person has launched a sweeping counteroffensive against President Donald Trump, attempting to rally Middle Eastern nations into an anti-American alliance, an expert warned Sunday.

The assertive maneuvering came hours aft Trump pitched an enlargement of the Abraham Accords, arsenic an expert said Tehran is seeking to presumption itself arsenic the region’s "new sheriff" portion forcing Gulf states with backchannels to Iran to take betwixt Washington’s information umbrella and a "New Islamic Civilization."

On Sunday, negotiations betwixt Iran and the United States appeared to beryllium ongoing, with Trump not yet signing disconnected connected a imaginable bid agreement.

Trump precocious held a telephone telephone with leaders from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain to sermon expanding the 2020 Abraham Accords, followed by a May 25 station connected Truth Social.

IRAN'S KHAMENEI LAUNCHES BLISTERING ATTACK ON TRUMP AFTER MIDDLE EAST VISIT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, and UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan basal during the Abraham Accords signing ceremonial connected the South Lawn of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Sept. 15, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg)

Mojtaba Khamenei issued a nonstop counter-response connected X connected May 26, issuing a telephone for a "New Islamic Civilization" aimed astatine those aforesaid determination capitals.

"I, with sincerity and purity of intention, invitation each Islamic countries and governments to relationship and practice successful goodness, truthful that by moving unneurotic we whitethorn instrumentality steps toward the advancement of the Islamic Ummah and the solution of the Islamic world's problems," Khamenei posted.

Highlighting "the nations of the region" and "common interests that volition signifier the caller bid and the aboriginal architecture of the portion and the world," helium spoke of "the Islamic Ummah and the #New_Islamic_Civilization."

"The United States volition nary longer person a harmless haven for its mischief and for establishing subject bases successful West Asia," helium besides warned.

"Mojtaba Khamenei's connection is that the Muslim satellite should consolidate nether Iran's enactment — the 'Ummah,' the 'new Islamic civilization' — against the American-led order," Dr. Omar Mohammed told Fox News Digital.

"That is the theme, and it runs consecutive into the Accords narrative. This is simply a bid to physique an confederation against the Abraham Accords," said Mohammed, manager of the Antisemitism Research Initiative Program connected Extremism astatine George Washington University.

TOP ISRAELI MILITARY OFFICIAL REVEALS OPERATION AGAINST IRAN INVOLVED 'STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL DECEPTION'

In this representation obtained from Iran's ISNA quality agency, Mojtaba Khamenei (C), lad of Iran's ultimate person Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, walks on a thoroughfare successful Tehran connected May 31, 2019. (Hamid FOROUTAN / ISNA / AFP via Getty Images)

"In his statement, helium besides frames American bases connected Muslim ungraded arsenic an concern to beryllium expelled portion wrapping it successful spiritual connection that casts the authorities arsenic God's instrument."

The counterterrorism adept noted that portion the "Ummah" doctrine itself is not caller — having been utilized by Mojtaba's begetter for years — the timing and targeted quality of the transportation correspond a large escalation.

"This came into the Ummah with Iran, not into normalization with Israel nether Washington," Mohammed explained. "Same audience, other frame, 24 hours apart, and a bid to assemble that alliance."

"The connection was published successful afloat and carried by Iranian authorities media. It besides tracks with his archetypal connection arsenic person connected March 12, erstwhile helium demanded that U.S. bases successful the portion close."

"This was not a stray post," the adept warned. "While the doctrine is old, aiming it astatine these regions the time aft Trump's transportation is what is new."

The posturing comes arsenic Khamenei establishes his footing connected the satellite stage, though his hidden quality complicates accepted diplomacy.

IRAN’S ‘STUNNING STRATEGIC MISCALCULATION’ COULD ACCELERATE GULF TIES TO ISRAEL, EX-CENTCOM DIRECTOR PREDICTS

President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman airs for photos with leaders during the Gulf Cooperation Council Leaders’ Summit astatine The Ritz-Carlton successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, connected May 14, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"Tehran is selling itself to the portion arsenic the caller sheriff of the neighborhood," Mohammed warned. 

"The Saudis, Qataris and Omanis person channels into the Iranian state, but you can't unfastened a backmost transmission to a antheral nary 1 tin locate. This has each been moving done Pezeshkian and Araghchi."

Despite Iran's abrupt rhetoric of "friendship," determination world is defined by months of Iranian aggression against its neighbors.

Tehran's forces person actively fired upon Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Kuwait.

Mohammed added that Tehran wants to peel Gulf states distant from Washington, portion its threats stay aimed astatine some the United States and the countries that big American forces.

"Iran spent this warfare firing connected them — it deed Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Kuwait, the aforesaid capitals it's present inviting to brotherhood, and the UAE unsocial reported intercepting adjacent to 2,000 drones and hundreds of ballistic missiles since Feb. 28," Mohammed said. 

"These are the states that big our forces: the Fifth Fleet successful Bahrain, Al Dhafra successful the UAE and Al Udeid successful Qatar. You don't instrumentality 3 months of Iranian occurrence and past motion onto its alliance."

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Ultimately, Gulf capitals stay profoundly skeptical of Tehran, Mohammed said, but they are arsenic watchful of American resolve.

"What really worries the Gulf isn't Mojtaba's invitation — it's the woody Washington mightiness sign," Mohammed noted, "one that hands Iran its wealth backmost with its missiles intact and reads arsenic rewarding the authorities that conscionable attacked them."