{"id":99036,"date":"2026-05-05T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99036\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:37:17","slug":"iran-launches-new-wave-of-missiles-drones-at-united-arab-emirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99036\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran launches new wave of missiles, drones at United Arab Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-895196\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Arab Emirates<\/a> air defenses are actively engaging Iranian missiles and drones, the UAE Defense Ministry said on Tuesday in an X\/Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The post noted that the incident involved several areas of the country and involved both ballistic and cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, with the UAE Foreign Ministry saying the country reserves its &#8220;full and legitimate right&#8221; to respond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Shortly afterward, Iranian opposition media reported a huge explosion and a plume of smoke in western Tehran, with an Iranian fire department chief saying a seven-story building had been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-895094\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three indian citizens<\/a> were moderately wounded in an Iranian drone attack on the UAE&#8217;s Fujairah oil industry complex, Fujairah&#8217;s media office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Later on Monday, Iranian state television reported, citing a military official, that Iran had no premeditated plan to attack oil facilities in Fujairah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">What happened at the port was a result of the &#8220;US military&#8217;s adventurism to create passage for illegal ship transit&#8221; through the Strait of Hormuz, added the official, according to Iranian state media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The UAE Defense Ministry confirmed that it confronted 12 Iranian ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles, and four drones on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Monday, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-895085\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Korean ship<\/a> sailing near the Strait of Hormuz was attacked, according to the Korean media outlet Chosun Daily, citing a government official.<\/p>\n<p>US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-895198\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> acknowledged the attack later on Monday, urging South Korea to join the American effort in the Strait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Arab Emirates air defenses are actively engaging Iranian missiles and drones, the UAE Defense Ministry said on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[682,34,2169,101,709,272],"class_list":{"0":"post-99036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-drone-attack","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-missile-attacks","11":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","12":"tag-uae","13":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116522951910826845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99036","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=99036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}