Rebuilding trust between Abu Dhabi and Tehran will take “ages and ages”, UAE presidential advisor Anwar Gargash has said, given the number of times Iran has targeted the United Arab Emirates during the war.

“You can’t be attacked with 2,800 missiles and drones and then talk to me about trust. That will take ages and ages,” Gargash said at a World Policy Conference in the town of Chantilly near Paris, as peace talks hang in the balance to end the war that began at the end of February.