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The United Arab Emirates says it has engaged a drone coming from Iran over its waters and denied reports of an attack on its Al Menhad airbase, after the United States and Iran resumed hostilities for the first time since July.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s army said in a statement cited by Iranian news agencies that dozens of drones were launched at US military assets at the Al Menhad airbase in the UAE early on Monday.<\/p>\n
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In a statement on X on Monday, the UAE\u2019s Ministry of Defence described the reports as \u201cfalse\u201d and \u201curged the public to rely on official sources for information and to refrain from circulating rumours or inaccurate information\u201d.<\/p>\n
Later, the ministry said the UAE\u2019s air force intercepted a drone \u201cover the country\u2019s territorial waters, approaching from Iran\u201d.<\/p>\n
The incident comes after the US and Iran exchanged attacks overnight, further denting hopes for a resolution of the more than six-month-long conflict.<\/p>\n
US forces on Sunday struck two Iranian launchers on Iran\u2019s Larak Island, some 660km (410 miles) east of \u2060Kharg Island, a US official said. Iran retaliated by attacking two bases used by US forces in Jordan and the UAE\u2019s Al Menhad airbase, according to Iranian media.<\/p>\n
The Jordan strikes targeted US bases used to launch and support the attack on Larak, Iran\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The Iranian army said its drone attack on the UAE\u2019s airbase targeted sites where US forces and helicopters were stationed in response to the Larak casualties.<\/p>\n
Iran has carried out a wave of attacks on Gulf countries since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran in late February. But at the urging of Gulf allies Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, US President Donald Trump said on August 1 he would order the military to hold off on new strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n
The UAE\u2019s presidential adviser, Anwar Mohammed Gargash, condemned the renewed escalation, saying \u201cthe policy of targeting the Arab Gulf states and Jordan has proven to be a failure\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolitical solutions must begin with de-escalation and restoring normal shipping through the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Gargash added.<\/p>\n
Stalled negotiations<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s return to hostilities comes after the Trump administration ramped up economic pressure on Iran and its business partners with new sanctions, and mediators intensified efforts to resume negotiations on a potential deal to end the war.<\/p>\n
High-level delegations from mediators Oman, Pakistan and Qatar visited Tehran last week in an effort to advance negotiations to bring the war to an end.<\/p>\n
The Strait of Hormuz remains a crucial sticking point during negotiations. Last week, Trump said all mines had been detonated or removed from the international waters of the strait, and Iran had been warned that any vessel placing new mines would be destroyed.<\/p>\n
While Trump has repeatedly said the Strait of Hormuz is open, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps \u200chas called those statements \u201can obvious lie\u201d, reiterating that it remains closed to ships without Iranian permission to transit.<\/p>\n
The waterway carried nearly a fifth of global crude oil and liquefied natural gas shipments before the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UAE says it intercepted a drone coming from Iran and rejected \u2018false\u2019 reports of an attack on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1178903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[774,20292,839,12,2723,49,978,286,234407,659],"class_list":["post-1178902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-iran","tag-jordan","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-canada","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117189997576837516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}