{"id":582758,"date":"2026-05-14T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582758\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:52:11","slug":"netanyahu-says-he-secretly-visited-uae-during-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582758\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu says he ‘secretly visited’ UAE during war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the war, Iran launched a series of missiles and drones on the UAE<\/a>. On 10 May the UAE’s Ministry of Defence said that air defence systems had engaged two drones launched from Iran and that the country had engaged a total of 551 ballistic missiles, 29 cruise missiles, and 2,265 since the war broke out in late February, when the US and Israel attacked Iran. <\/p>\n

On Monday the Wall Street Journal reported that the UAE had also carried out strikes on Iran, which it had not yet publicly acknowledged, including an attack on a refinery on Iran’s Lavan Island in early April.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday Emirati presidential adviser Anwar Gargash said the UAE remained committed to diplomacy but had a right to defend itself.<\/p>\n

In his post, Gargash said that the UAE had not sought the war and had worked to avoid it, saying that “Arab-Iranian relations in the Gulf cannot be built on confrontations and conflicts”.<\/p>\n

A ceasefire has been in place between the US and Iran for about a month.<\/p>\n

However Iran has continued to block the Strait of Hormuz in response to US-Israel strikes, prompting a rise in world oil prices. Normally about 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas passes through the strait. The US for its part has been enforcing a blockade of Iranian ports to exert pressure on Tehran to agree to its terms.<\/p>\n

On Sunday Iran laid out its demands to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz in a counter-offer sent to the US. Trump rejected the proposal, calling it “totally unacceptable” and a “piece of garbage” and subsequently said the ceasefire was “on massive life support”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf responded on X that Iran’s armed forces were “ready to respond and to teach a lesson for any aggression”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the war, Iran launched a series of missiles and drones on the UAE. On 10 May the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-582758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}