Dubai’s financial hub hit by kamikaze drone leaving plume of smoke rising over city's skyline
Explosions rocked Dubai this morning after debris from an Iranian drone struck the city's financial district.
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A building was damaged in Dubai's International Finance Centre by debris from a successful interception of an attack.
Authorities said there were no injuries during the latest attack on Dubai which has been repeatedly targeted with drones and missiles since the war began.
They described the attack as a fire in an industrial area.
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In a post on X shortly after 3:30 GMT, Dubai officials said: "debris from a successful interception caused a minor incident on the facade of a building" and that "no injuries" have been reported.
Earlier this week Dubai banks including Citi and Standard Chartered ordered workers to leave their offices after Iran threatened to target US and Israeli financial institutions.
In recent days, a British national was charged in Dubai after filming Iranian missiles.
The 60-year-old man was taken into custody on Monday and was detained at a police station in the Bur Dubai area.
It is understood that the man was seen filming missiles at the time of his arrest.
It is not known if footage was shared on social media, but UAE officials have warned tourists and residents that they could face prison for posting material about the Middle East conflict.
Donald Trump issued a new threat online to Iran this morning, writing: "Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today."
Mr Trump made the post on Friday on his Truth Social website, saying: "Iran's Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.
"They've been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them.
"What a great honor it is to do so!"
It comes after Iran's secretive new leader issued his first public statements on Thursday, resolving to keep fighting, promising more pain for Gulf Arab states and threatening to open "other fronts" in a war that has already disrupted world energy supplies, the global economy and international travel.
The hard-line stance revealed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei followed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying his country's attacks were creating conditions for the Iranian population to topple the government.
"It is in your hands," Mr Netanyahu said at a news conference, addressing the Iranian people. "We are creating the optimal conditions for the fall of the regime."
Since the start of the war, US and Israeli strikes have targeted security checkpoints in Iran to undermine the government's ability to suppress dissent, according to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, the US-based independent monitoring group known as ACLED.
Intense airstrikes hit early on Friday around Iran's capital, Tehran, as well as outlying areas. It was not immediately clear what had been targeted.
The war continued to escalate on its 13th day as oil prices spiralled up again to 100 dollars (£75) per barrel, and stocks sank worldwide over fears that the conflict could drag on longer than hoped.
To relieve the surge in prices, the US Treasury Department announced it was further easing sanctions on Russian oil by granting a licence that authorises the delivery and sale of some Russian crude oil and petroleum products for the next month.
The new exemption applies only to Russian oil already at sea. Last week, analysts estimated there were about 125 million barrels loaded on tankers.
Iran has made clear it plans to keep up attacks on energy infrastructure across the region and use the effective closure of the strait as leverage against the United States and Israel. A fifth of the world's traded oil flows through the waterway leading from the Persian Gulf towards the Indian Ocean.