{"id":106660,"date":"2026-05-10T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/106660\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:14:09","slug":"uae-intercepts-two-iranian-drones-qatari-pm-warns-iran-against-using-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/106660\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE intercepts two Iranian drones, Qatari PM warns Iran against using Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The United Arab Emirates&#8217; air defenses dealt with two drones coming from Iran on Sunday, the Defense Ministry said, the latest in renewed attacks on the oil-rich Gulf country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-895586\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> has denied carrying out operations against the UAE in recent days, yet it warned of a &#8220;crushing response&#8221; if any actions were launched from the UAE against it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The attacks prompted the UAE to shift to remote learning for schools last week, but authorities said on Sunday that in-person learning would resume from Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-895640\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qatar<\/a>&#8216;s prime minister told Iran&#8217;s foreign minister that using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-895532\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> as &#8220;a pressure tool&#8221; would only deepen the crisis in the Gulf, the Qatari foreign ministry said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al\u2011Thani also told Iran&#8217;s Abbas Araghchi in a phone call that all parties in the conflict should respond to mediation efforts to end the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Al-Thani is also Qatar&#8217;s foreign minister. The ministry did not say when the call took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Arab Emirates&#8217; air defenses dealt with two drones coming from Iran on Sunday, the Defense Ministry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[211,102,34,271,101,272],"class_list":{"0":"post-106660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-abbas-araghchi","9":"tag-hormuz","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-qatar","12":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","13":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116550465151269496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}