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UAE Says Intercepted Iranian Missiles, Drones Hours After Ceasefire
(MENAFN) The United Arab Emirates is actively repelling a barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and armed drones, its defense authorities confirmed Wednesday — a stunning escalation unfolding just hours after a landmark ceasefire between Tehran and Washington was declared.
The UAE Defense Ministry disclosed in an urgent official statement that the waves of explosions reverberating across multiple areas of the country were not isolated incidents, but rather the direct acoustic consequence of air defense systems intercepting incoming aerial threats comprising ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
"The air defenses are currently dealing with missiles and drones coming from Iran," the ministry stated, confirming that all reported sounds of blasts across residential and commercial zones were directly tied to ongoing interception operations overhead.
The brazen attacks land with jarring timing — arriving mere hours after US President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday, citing Tehran's submission of a "workable" 10-point framework as the basis for structured diplomatic negotiations. That announcement itself had come fewer than two hours before the expiration of a deadline Trump had repeatedly prolonged, which warned Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face what he characterized as "the destruction of an entire civilization."
The strikes form part of a widening pattern of Iranian retaliation that has engulfed the region since US and Israeli forces launched a coordinated offensive against Iran on February 28 — a campaign that has since killed more than 1,400 people, among them former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the weeks that followed, Tehran has unleashed successive waves of drone and missile attacks against Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Gulf nations hosting American military infrastructure, while simultaneously choking commercial navigation through the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.
The UAE Defense Ministry disclosed in an urgent official statement that the waves of explosions reverberating across multiple areas of the country were not isolated incidents, but rather the direct acoustic consequence of air defense systems intercepting incoming aerial threats comprising ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
"The air defenses are currently dealing with missiles and drones coming from Iran," the ministry stated, confirming that all reported sounds of blasts across residential and commercial zones were directly tied to ongoing interception operations overhead.
The brazen attacks land with jarring timing — arriving mere hours after US President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday, citing Tehran's submission of a "workable" 10-point framework as the basis for structured diplomatic negotiations. That announcement itself had come fewer than two hours before the expiration of a deadline Trump had repeatedly prolonged, which warned Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face what he characterized as "the destruction of an entire civilization."
The strikes form part of a widening pattern of Iranian retaliation that has engulfed the region since US and Israeli forces launched a coordinated offensive against Iran on February 28 — a campaign that has since killed more than 1,400 people, among them former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the weeks that followed, Tehran has unleashed successive waves of drone and missile attacks against Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Gulf nations hosting American military infrastructure, while simultaneously choking commercial navigation through the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.
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