{"id":255318,"date":"2026-08-18T23:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/255318\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T23:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:55:48","slug":"uae-says-iran-fired-2-missiles-at-country-as-war-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/255318\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE says Iran fired 2 missiles at country, as war drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The United Arab Emirates said that two ballistic missiles were fired towards the country from Iran, the Islamic Republic\u2019s first known attack on the Gulf nation since May as the wider Middle East war continues unabated.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Both missiles fell into the sea, with one of them dropping within the UAE\u2019s territorial waters and the other outside, the country\u2019s defence ministry said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Assessments indicated the projectiles were meant to target maritime traffic, the ministry added later.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">All trade, commercial exchanges and financial transactions with Iran have been halted until further notice, in light of \u201cregional escalations that undermine regional and international peace and security\u201d, according to a statement by the UAE\u2019s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iran denied firing missiles at the UAE. Its foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Telegram that all regional parties should refrain from making \u201cbaseless accusations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A vessel is seen off the coast of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on August 3. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/75ac27d5-eb40-4d70-bc31-0e2bca289176_ea781c73.jpg\" title=\"A vessel is seen off the coast of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on August 3. Photo: AFP\"\/>A vessel is seen off the coast of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on August 3. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Residents in Dubai received on Tuesday a missile threat alert as the UAE said its air defence systems were dealing with incoming missiles. The interior ministry declared the situation \u201csafe\u201d shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Arab Emirates said that two ballistic missiles were fired towards the country from Iran, the Islamic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[26273,1567,34,196,49,712,101,709,272],"class_list":["post-255318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-abu-dhabi-national-oil-co","tag-dubai","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-middle-east","tag-missiles","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-uae","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117119220975382785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255318","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=255318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}