All US Hideouts In UAE 'Legitimate Targets', Iran Warns After Kharg Island Attack

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that all the United States (US) hindeouts in the gulf nation are the legitimate targets.

The statement comes after the US struck military targets on Kharg Island, which handles around 90% of Iran’s oil exports. Iran has vowed retaliation against US-linked oil facilities in the region.

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After the US targeted Iran’s financial institutions, oil refineries and even public institutions such as school, Iran has vowed that it would target non-military US assets in the region, such as economic centres.

The US has been carrying out attacks across Iranian cities, which killed the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, prompting Iran to shut down the Strait of Hormuz to exert maximum pressure.

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The Iran army is also conducting retaliatory attacks against Israel and the US military bases across the region.

stonezdota on March 14th, 2026 at 13:00 UTC »

These Muslim countries affected by decades long of Iran terrorist proxxy should really consider actively acting against Iran.

Significant_Swing_76 on March 14th, 2026 at 11:20 UTC »

And all it takes is one major loss of american soldiers, a loss so significant that the current administration can’t bury it, and then it’s another forever war.

So far it seems as the Iranian government is far far far from beaten.

cambeiu on March 14th, 2026 at 11:12 UTC »

Fujairah, the world's largest oil terminal has already been hit.

Trump's gamble of intimidating Iran by bombing Kharg island has failed.

Boots on the ground next? Not a whole lot of options left.

Iran seems to be changing strategy towards amplifying global economic pressure

Roxane Farmanfarmaian, a Gulf security specialist and professor of modern Middle East politics at the University of Cambridge, has said that despite longstanding speculation that Iran targeted Gulf countries in hopes of pressuring them into influencing the United States to halt the war, the strategy has not succeeded in stopping the fighting.

“But it has changed the dynamic in the Gulf,” she told Al Jazeera. “Part of the calculation that we’re seeing evolve is that Iran is coming to realise very clearly that it has control over the global oil price and also access by being able to shut down oil tankers going through the Strait of Hormuz – in fact, out of any of the Gulf area.”

She said that with the UAE’s Fujairah already hit, another potential target could be the oil pipeline running across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea, suggesting the strategy may be shifting towards amplifying global economic pressure.

“There’s a good chance, I think, that that might be targeted because I think the purpose is now not just to attack the Gulf, but to ensure that in Washington, the pain that the Gulf is undergoing and the world in general because of the oil shortage is felt starkly in the stock market and in the price of gas [petrol] at the American pump.”