Drone strikes hit the UAE’s Fujairah energy installations earlier this month, with falling debris from an intercepted drone sparking a blaze, authorities said.
Since the beginning of the war, Iran has methodically targeted the Gulf’s energy sites from Kuwait to Oman.
The strikes have mostly hit oil and gas fields or sprawling complexes, such as the massive Ras Tanura refinery in Saudi Arabia, the Ras Laffan gas processing base in Qatar and the complex housing the UAE’s Ruwais refinery.
Iran has also effectively halted traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane through which about a fifth of global crude oil and liquefied natural gas normally pass.
The UAE has been targeted repeatedly with missile barrages and drone strikes, as Tehran unleashed retaliatory strikes across the Gulf after the US and Israel launched a war against Iran.
Later Saturday, the UAE foreign affairs ministry slammed the targeting of its consulate in Iraqi Kurdistan for the second time in a week.
