In response to the “economic war and economic isolation” announced by the US side against Iran and the UAE's announcement to suspend all trade, commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with Iran, US public opinion analysis said that the US government changed its strategy due to the impasse in the US-Iran situation and tried to force Iran to surrender by means of economic pressure. However, in practice, it is quite difficult to completely cut off financial and trade exchanges between the UAE and Iran. According to several people familiar with the matter, the US government has been “persuading” the UAE to crack down on Iran's financial network operating within the country for several weeks, claiming that compared with the US Navy blocking Iranian ports, the UAE's containment of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran's cash flow has had a greater impact on Iran. Analysts believe that even if official financial channels and major port traffic are closed, the UAE government will not be able to monitor “the movement of every local partner, every free trade zone, or every small vessel” in the seven emirates. Meanwhile, people familiar with the matter said that UAE decision makers are concerned that the US strategy of putting pressure on Iran by economic means may hurt the economies of Gulf countries that rely on tourism and trade, and may even lead to further military attacks on Iran.

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