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The UAE said connected Sunday it was closing its Embassy successful Tehran and recalling the Emirati Ambassador aft Iran's retaliatory rocket and drone run successful the Gulf killed 4 radical and wounded dozens more.
The determination marks the strongest condemnation yet by a Gulf authorities since Tehran began targeting the portion with a barrage of strikes aft the U.S. and Israel launched a monolithic aerial run against Iran that killed its ultimate person and different apical officials.
Iran-Israel conflict updates connected March 1, 2026
"These hostile attacks against civilian sites, including residential areas, airports, ports, and work facilities, endangered guiltless civilians successful a superior and irresponsible escalation," the UAE Foreign Ministry said successful a statement.
The UAE afloat reopened its embassy and sent a caller ambassador to Tehran successful 2022 during a thaw successful relations betwixt the Emirates and the Islamic republic. Saudi Arabia aboriginal followed suit.
Iran's continued and unprecedented Gulf bombardment has raised fears of a wider struggle and rattled a portion agelong seen arsenic a haven of bid and information successful the turbulent West Asia.
For a 2nd day, AFP correspondents heard repeated, almighty blasts successful Dubai, Doha and Manama, with explosions besides heard successful Riyadh, arsenic Iran launched counterstrikes pursuing US and Israeli attacks.
Tehran besides appeared to people connected Sunday (March 1, 2026) a gathering analyzable successful the UAE superior Abu Dhabi lodging respective overseas missions, including the Israeli embassy.
Two radical were injured by debris during the incidental astatine Etihad Towers.
Three radical — Pakistani, Nepalese and Bangladeshi nationals — person been killed successful the UAE since Saturday, according to Abu Dhabi's Defence Ministry.
Since Saturday (February 28, 2026) the UAE detected 165 ballistic missiles, destroying 152, and intercepted 2 cruise missiles, the ministry said.
It added that 506 of 541 Iranian drones were changeable down.
The Kuwaiti Health Ministry said 1 idiosyncratic had been killed and 32 others injured since Saturday.
In Oman, which helped mediate U.S.-Iran talks and was the lone Gulf authorities spared connected the archetypal time of the Iranian campaign, the larboard of Duqm was targeted by 2 drones, the Oman News Agency said.
Later Sunday, Oman's Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi pushed for a ceasefire connected a telephone with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.
Mr. Albusaidi "affirmed the Sultanate of Oman's continued telephone for a ceasefire and a instrumentality to dialogue... successful a mode that achieves the morganatic demands of each parties," his Ministry said successful a readout of the call.
Hotels go targets
Earlier, Oman said an lipid tanker was targeted disconnected the coast. Its unit was evacuated and 4 of them were injured, the quality bureau reported.
The Gulf Cooperation Council was to convene via video-link aboriginal Sunday (March 1, 2026) for a unified effect to Iran's attacks.
Jordan, which has besides been intercepting missiles and drones implicit the past 2 days, said 5 radical person been injured and a fig of homes damaged crossed the kingdom since the commencement of Iran's reprisals.
Across the Gulf, civilian infrastructure has been hit: from airports and seaports to residential buildings and hotels.
Security expert Anna Jacobs said: "The Gulf countries close present are truly connected the beforehand lines of this brutal war."
"Gulf countries, arsenic always, privation to enactment de-escalation and diplomacy... But this committedness and these principles are being enactment to the trial close now," she added.
"If Iran continues to deed these countries and escalates adjacent more, it volition beryllium precise hard for them to conscionable beryllium and bash nothing."
Early Sunday (March 1, 2026), drones struck the airdrome successful Bahrain's superior Manama, causing insignificant damage, authorities said.
The U.S. Embassy successful Manama urged citizens to steer wide of hotels successful Manama, informing they could go imaginable targets aft the Crowne Plaza was hit.
Palm, Burj Al Arab
In the UAE, which has borne the brunt of the attacks, 2 radical were injured erstwhile debris from intercepted drones fell connected homes successful Dubai, authorities said.
On Saturday (February 28, 2026), the Iranian attacks sparked fires astatine landmarks specified arsenic The Palm seafront improvement and Burj Al Arab hotel.
At the airdrome successful Abu Dhabi, astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 7 wounded during what authorities called an "incident" and different died earlier successful the time from falling debris.
Dubai airport, the world's busiest for planetary traffic, and Kuwait's airport, were besides hit.
In Saudi Arabia, Iranian missiles targeting Riyadh's planetary airdrome and the Prince Sultan Airbase, which houses US subject personnel, were intercepted, a Gulf root briefed connected the substance told AFP.
A witnesser adjacent the airdrome said they "saw and heard the aerial defence intercept the rocket successful the sky".
In Qatar, big of the region's biggest US subject base, officials said Iran had launched 65 missiles and 12 drones towards the Gulf state, astir of which were intercepted, but 8 radical were injured, with 1 successful captious condition.
The oil-and-gas-rich Arab monarchies big a clutch of U.S. subject bases.
