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The United Arab Emirates carried retired attacks connected Iran aboriginal past month, sources told the Wall Street Journal, revealing antecedently chartless information in the warfare by the Gulf country.
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In an nonfiction Monday (May 11, 2026), the American paper said the UAE's attacks targeted a refinery located connected Iran's Lavan Island and took spot "around the time" U.S. President Donald Trump was "announcing a cease-fire successful the war" aft a five-week aerial onslaught campaign.
The U.S. has softly welcomed the Emirati strikes and immoderate different Gulf states that privation to articulation the fight, the insubstantial reported, citing 1 unnamed source.
AFP has not been capable to independently verify the reported Emirati attacks. The Journal did not specify a day oregon time.
However, the greeting of April 8, Iranian authorities broadcaster IRIB said: "missile and drone attacks connected the Emirates and Kuwait person taken spot a fewer hours aft the targeting of Lavan land lipid facilities successful Iran."
The authorities broadcaster said the Lavan installation "was subjected to a cowardly attack" astatine 10:00 a.m. (0630 GMT). On the aforesaid day, conscionable hours aft the ceasefire came into effect, the UAE said that it had been targeted by 17 Iranian missiles and 35 drones.
That aforesaid morning, Kuwait's subject said that it was facing a barrage of attacks connected powerfulness and desalination plants arsenic good arsenic lipid facilities — an aboriginal trial of the fragile truce.
The refinery was Iran's 10th biggest refinery arsenic of 2020, handling 60,000 barrels of crude per day, according to EIA figures.
