Just hours after the Iranian president, Mesud Pezeshkian, ensure that the interim council ordered to stop attacks against neighboring countries, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain They put their population on alert due to attacks launched from Tehran. Despite the president’s announcement, the Revolutionary Guard Iran announced this Saturday bombings against US bases in the region.
Qatari authorities have issued several statements reporting a wave of drone attacks from Iran and have put the population on alert in the face of a “high” threat. In a subsequent statement, the ministry did not specify how many missiles were involved or what the target was, but it assured that “the security threat has been eliminated and the situation has returned to normal”.
Likewise, the United Arab Emirateson social networks, has reported the activation of its air defense systems “to respond to drone and missile threats from Iran” and has explained to the population that the sounds of explosions were due to interceptions of Iranian missiles and drones by the Air Force. In this context, the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyanhas assured that the country is “in times of war.”
However, one of the most notorious incidents in the country has been the one that has stopped the activity in Dubai International Airport”for security reasons”, for about half an hour, on Saturday morning. The Emirati authorities have denied that it was the impact of an Iranian drone in the vicinity of the airfield and have explained that it was a damage due to the fall of debris from an intercepted missile.
Attacks against US targets
In Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Defense claimed to have intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles who were heading towards the Prince Sultan Air Basewhich houses American troops and from where the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing of the US Air Force, a key piece for anti-missile defense and surveillance in the region. The ministry also reported that intercepted six drones heading to the Shaybah oil field and a seventh in the east of the city of Riyadh.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has also announced attacks on US positions in the Al Dhafra military bases, in the United Arab Emirates, where American and French forces are deployed, and the Juffair naval basein Bahrain, where the headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is located. Until now, Neither country nor the United States have confirmed the nature of the attacks..
“This base is one of the largest and most important and represents the control and orientation center for American terrorists in the region of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. “All targets were successfully hit,” the Revolutionary Guard said in a statement. “In this attack, the air warfare center, the satellite communications center, the early warning radars and the fire control radars of the American terrorists were hit,” it added.
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