{"id":109820,"date":"2026-05-12T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/109820\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:28:07","slug":"mike-huckabee-confirms-israel-sent-iron-dome-to-uae-for-defense-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/109820\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huckabee confirms Israel sent Iron Dome to UAE for defense against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to say a word of appreciation for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-895207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United Arab Emirates,<\/a> the first Abraham Accords member,\u201d Huckabee said when asked about a potential expansion of the Abraham Accords.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cJust look at the benefits. Israel just sent them Iron Dome batteries and personnel to help operate them. How come? Because there&#8217;s an extraordinary relationship between the UAE and Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;On October 7, they were operating 17 flights a day between the Emirates and Israel. The following day, on the 8th, they maintained those 17 flights. They continued to do so while every other airline, including all US and European airlines, ceased operations into Israel. The UAE was the only nation whose planes continued to fly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Huckabee also implied that US President Donald Trump is likely to visit Israel before the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cFirst of all, he has been awarded the Israel Prize, an incredible, prestigious honor. For those of us who understand what a significant achievement this is, we certainly encourage him to come,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He added, \u201cEvery time I talk to the President, I tell him, &#8216;Mr. President, you need to come to Israel, because you will be overwhelmed by the response of the Israeli people, their love for you and their appreciation.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Earlier reports in April suggested Israel had sent an Iron Dome system and dozens of IDF troops to the United Arab Emirates during Operation Roaring Lion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Multiple Israeli officials stated at the time that the decision to send the Iron Dome battery and interceptors was made after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) over the phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">This is the first instance of the Iron Dome being utilized operationally outside of the United States or Israel, though Singapore has previously reportedly purchased and received Iron Dome, and Romania is expected to do so as well.<\/p>\n<p>Yonah Jeremy Bob and Goldie Katz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019d like to say a word of appreciation for the United Arab Emirates, the first Abraham Accords member,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2344,37,12760,14204,709],"class_list":{"0":"post-109820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-iron-dome","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mike-huckabee","11":"tag-tel-aviv-university","12":"tag-uae"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116560901932587845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109820","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=109820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}