{"id":21041,"date":"2026-05-12T03:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=21041"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:06:59","slug":"uae-conducted-covert-strikes-inside-iran-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/05\/12\/uae-conducted-covert-strikes-inside-iran-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE conducted covert strikes inside Iran, report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The United Arab Emirates carried out covert attacks against Iran, though Abu Dhabi has not publicly acknowledged the operations, Western media outlets have recently revealed.<br>The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday night that the UAE targeted sites inside Iranian territory in strikes conducted early last month (April).<br>One of the attacks targeted an Iranian oil refinery on Lavan Island in the Persian Gulf, said the report adding that the strikes triggered a major fire at the facility, knocking out a significant portion of its production capacity for an extended period.<br>The report added that Iranian armed forces retaliated by launching missile and drone attacks against targets in the United Arab Emirates.<br>It also stated that the United States did not oppose the attacks and quietly supported the involvement of Gulf states in military operations against Iran.<br>UAE officials have so far not publicly confirmed any direct military strikes against targets inside Iran.<br>According to reports, during the 40-day conflict involving the United States and Israel against Iran, the UAE sustained the largest number of Iranian missile and drone attacks among Gulf countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The United Arab Emirates carried out covert attacks against Iran, though Abu Dhabi has not publicly acknowledged the operations, Western media outlets have recently revealed.The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday night that the UAE targeted sites inside Iranian territory in strikes conducted early last month (April).One of the attacks targeted an Iranian oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21043,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041\/revisions\/21043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}