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A video released by Iran’s state-linked Fars News Agency appears to amusement a plume of fume rising from an country adjacent the Burj Khalifa, arsenic radical are seen moving from the scene. The nonstop determination and region of the detonation from the landmark skyscraper stay unclear.
Another luxury edifice successful Dubai was caught up successful the escalating determination struggle aft Iran launched retaliatory strikes successful effect to what it described arsenic a “massive” battle by the US and Israel.
Video verified by the BBC showed flames engulfing the Fairmont The Palm, with heavy achromatic fume rising supra the Palm Jumeirah. Authorities said 4 radical were injured and the blaze was aboriginal contained.The incidental comes arsenic the United States and Israel launched what President Donald Trump described arsenic “major combat operations” against Iran. Washington and Tel Aviv said the strikes were aimed astatine crippling Iran’s subject capabilities and preventing it from processing a atomic weapon.
Iranian authorities media, citing the Red Crescent, reported that astatine slightest 201 radical were killed and much than 700 injured successful the attacks.Iran responded by firing missiles and drones towards Israel and astatine US subject installations successful Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. Shrapnel from 1 Iranian rocket onslaught reportedly killed a idiosyncratic successful the United Arab Emirates, arsenic aerial defence systems were activated crossed parts of the Gulf.
Iraq and the UAE temporarily closed their airspace, portion sirens were heard successful Jordan.In an eight-minute video message, Trump urged Iranians to “seize power of your destiny” and aboriginal said: “When we are finished, instrumentality implicit your government. It volition beryllium yours to take.” He framed the cognition arsenic indispensable to extremity what helium called the menace posed by Iran’s enactment since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.Iran’s overseas ministry condemned the strikes arsenic “unprovoked, amerciable and perfectly illegitimate”, portion its Revolutionary Guard launched counterattacks. The United Nations Security Council scheduled an exigency meeting, and the UN’s atomic watchdog said it was intimately monitoring developments with “no grounds of radiological impact”.As rocket exchanges continued into the night, commercialized flights crossed the Middle East were disrupted, with large carriers suspending routes and rerouting aircraft.
