US-ISRAEL WAR ON IRAN: The UAE’s🇦🇪 ‘years of planning for such a scenario’ prepared it for this crisis
‘The UAE’s air defence system is not only THAAD, it’s a combination of a number of air defence systems, including one that is built here in the UAE.
We have recently heard the White House spokesperson specifically say that the attack that has happened on the US Consulate was defended with missiles produced here in the UAE. So that is something that has been in the making for years, and it just happened to happen that we used them today. We hoped that we would never do that.
What got me surprised, really, is how nonchalant it feels here. All of these attacks, the number of missiles and drones that have been targeted at the UAE, that is actually more than all of the missiles that went to all of the other countries Iran has targeted. Yet we can drive outside, we go to the mall, we go to restaurants, we go to the mosque for prayer.
We need to credit the first responders, the way they have been conducting themselves. Fires have been extinguished at a very high speed. People’s lives are being facilitated and eased up.
Tourists who’ve been stranded here in Dubai have got their bill for their hotel extensions picked up by the UAE government, and those corridors are now being opened slowly to allow those stranded to go back home.
It’s an amazement of how work of years and years of planning has now come out useful whenever it was needed.’
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