{"id":111429,"date":"2026-05-13T08:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/111429\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:24:17","slug":"west-asia-conflict-irans-lavan-island-refinery-hit-in-secret-uae-strike-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/111429\/","title":{"rendered":"West Asia Conflict: Iran\u2019s Lavan Island refinery hit in secret UAE strike, says Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite rejecting any military involvement during the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/news\/world-news\/article\/us-israel-attack-iran-diplomatic-freeze-between-iran-and-us-shakes-global-oil-markets-23629986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">conflict in West Asia<\/a>, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reportedly carried out covert strikes on Iran, marking a significant escalation in the Gulf monarchy\u2019s role in the war, The Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the WSJ report, the UAE conducted attacks, including a strike on a refinery located on Iran\u2019s Lavan Island in the Persian Gulf, in early April, around the same time US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire following the military campaign against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite rejecting any military involvement during the recent conflict in West Asia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[177,38498,1495,34,34490,30969,30398,38497,39,2081,38496,272,183,6796,3909,480,30399,82,30970,30971],"class_list":["post-111429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-conflict","tag-gulf-monarchy","tag-international-news","tag-iran","tag-iran-uae-war","tag-latest-international-news","tag-latest-world-news","tag-military-involvement","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strikes","tag-uae-attack-iran","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-us-israel-attack-iran","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-west-asia","tag-west-asia-conflict","tag-world-breaking-news","tag-world-news","tag-world-news-headlines","tag-world-news-today"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116566311877471642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111429","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=111429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}