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France has deployed Rafale combatant jets implicit the United Arab Emirates to support its naval and aerial bases against Iranian attacks, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026).
France has hundreds of navy, aerial unit and service unit based successful the United Arab Emirates. Its Rafale craft are stationed astatine the Dhafra basal adjacent Abu Dhabi.
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“These Rafales and their pilots are mobilised to guarantee the information of our facilities,” Mr. Barrot told the BFMTV broadcaster successful effect to a question connected French enactment successful the United Arab Emirates implicit the play to neutralise Iranian drones.
“They person carried retired operations to unafraid the airspace supra our bases.”
On Sunday, “a hangar astatine a French basal successful the United Arab Emirates was deed by a drone,” Mr. Barrot said.
“Exchanges are multiplying to find some however the state tin support itself against aboriginal attacks and however France tin support its interests there,” helium added.
The United States and Israel connected Saturday launched attacks against Iran, sidesplitting Iranian ultimate person Ali Khamenei.
Iran has responded by targeting US allies successful the Gulf region, threatening explicitly to thrust up vigor costs, which could wreak havoc connected the planetary economy.
In Abu Dhabi, a drone struck a substance vessel terminal connected Monday (March 2, 2026), causing a occurrence though operations were not impacted.
Tech elephantine Amazon said precocious Monday that 2 of its information centres successful the United Arab Emirates were “directly struck” by drones, disrupting unreality services successful parts of the Middle East.
