Iran continues to strike Gulf nations
Explosions continue to ring out in the popular holiday destination of Dubai, with reports that the U.S. consulate building is ablaze after being targeted by Iranian drone strikes.
Iran has carried out strikes against several neighbouring Gulf nations, including the UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia, as well as retaliatory strikes against Israel. Joint Israeli and U.S. bombardments killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday (February 28).
On Tuesday evening, pictures appear to show the U.S. consulate building on fire. Earlier that day, the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was also struck by Iranian fire as it hit back at industrial and diplomatic targets across the Middle East.
During a press conference alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President Donald Trump claimed ‘everything’s been knocked out in Iran’ and criticised the UK for its delay in allowing the U.S. to use their bases in the region to conduct bombing campaigns.
Referring to the UK’s Chagos Islands deal, which he has publicly backed and rejected multiple times, Trump said: “That island that you read about, the lease, for whatever reason, he made a lease of the island, somebody came and took it away from him.
“And it’s taken three, four days for us to work out where we can land, it would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours.
“So we are very surprised. This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with,” he said of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.