The murder of Israeli rabbi Zvi Kogan, whose body was found in Dubai within days after he was reported missing in the United Arab Emirates, will likely reinforce the UAE’s frustrations with Iran, former NATO Ambassador Kurt Volker told Newsmax on Sunday.

“I don’t think it changes [the situation] fundamentally, but I think that there is one thing that’s going to occur from this,” said Volker, appearing on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report” with former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and author of “Putin’s Playbook” Rebekah Koffler. “It’s going to reinforce the UAE’s frustrations and irritations with Iran. That something like this would happen on UAE territory is not at all what they would want.”

Meanwhile, the war in the Middle East is in a “very dangerous period” in which Iran will “try to see what it can get away with in the final months of the Biden administration,” said Volker.

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