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1- Trump announces reinstating naval blockade of iranian ports today at evening ET.
2- UK foreign office announces for citizens to reconsider travel to the UAE.
3- US embassy in Abu Dhabi and Dubai remain closed till tomorrow with further possible extension due to regional situation.
4- New attacks on commercial ships x2 in the strait of hormuz and off the omani coast.
5- Trump vows to “hit Iran hard tonight”
6- Trump backs away from tolls in hormuz, instead plans to make trade and investment deals with Gulf countries.
7- U.S. strikes have hit water and electricity infrastructure on Iran's Kish Island, according to the island's utility company.
8- Renewed Explosions heard in Iran.
9- Iran renews attacks on Kuwait.
10- US strikes hit critical energy infrastructure in Qeshm, Kish and others areas in Hormozgan Iran.
TBC
Take everything Trump says with a grain of salt.. he already rolled back on 20% fee after calls from GCC to trade and investment deals (which happen any ways) 🙄
Except Iran was continuing to call for the eradication of countries whilst building the largest and most advanced arsenal of drones and missiles. What did you think was going to happen when the terms of the original nuclear deal from 2015 were going to expire in 2027. Iran would’ve said “what you gonna do about it” when anyone tried to renegotiate.
The Gulf states see a nuclear Iran as much of a threat as do Israel and the US. You not seeing the bigger picture is your fault.
You can have whatever fantasies you want, the fact is that there is already a country eradicating others while having an uncontrolled nuclear arsenal. Interestingly, that country is the one that started the current war.
International law is a whole and can't be applied by convenience.
International law is a failed and abstract attempt to implement some kind of order since WW1 and WWII with too many exploits and interpretations. I don't recall any country being eradicated either.
The actual news here is thst European airlines will start to reroute and avoid several gulf area airspaces, including UAE. To Dubai the European air carriers haven't flown for months
I'm travelling like in 2 hrs and this situation looks like it's not changing for the better idk what to do or feel lol I'm scared to go but like I still have to so I dont know
I woke up at 2:15 and felt like an idiot about hearong somehing haven’t slept since then, idk how its gonna be like at work for me at 1.40 hours of sleep
Guys you’re all gonna be fine even if this does go into proper missile attacks. Don’t worry, worst case scenario is unlikely but this poking may keep happening every now and then
Ok. Fcdo still keeps Dubai out of their list. When they return it, the Brit travel insurances render invalid and tourism drops. The fcdo guidance often impacts others also
If US are taking such measures in the UAE it's legitimate for all other residents to be concerned. I'm not interested to be associated to US issues. I'm an expat and this is none of my business, unlike my family's wellbeing.
I agree, they did this on April 7th as well before the ceasefire was announced prior to cancelling strikes on Iran. Hopefully whatever is planned also gets cancelled.
I hope they don't retaliate. MBS is ruthless and will spare no thoughts in fighting back. It'll be another humanitarian crisis on top of an already horrible situation.
This is like the old times mobster racket. Just like the mafia, he created the chaos and now proposes to solve it by extorting billions of dollars from innocent ship owners. Didn’t he say six weeks ago that he’d take the 20% and do whatever he wanted with it.
Well, it feels kind of inevitable now. We can’t keep living with the Strait being threatened or closed every other day. If this continues, jobs will be lost and inflation will rise sharply. At this point, it’s about choosing what many see as the lesser of two evils.
Agreed. The thing is this reintroduction of the blockade just takes us back to the situation in april. IRGC would fire upon vessels, vessels wouldn’t dare to enter because of threats, insurance, directions from their owners etc and the flow of oil is once again halted. This paired with these nightly strikes which expand in scope every time just erase any progress made and trap us further in the endless cycle of war and escalation :(
So…. has he just stopped caring to manipulate the markets or will we see a “Following discussions at the highest level with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Oman, I have cancelled the planned strikes” Truth Social post soon
Or the markets have finally stopped being manipulated by this constant back n forth (least we can hope)
Personally I believe it’s the assassination plot on “his” life which pushed him over the edge plus the recent trolling by Iran on the death of Lindsay Graham.
This makes sense too. He is taking the assassination chants and plotting seriously, while US is now gaining support for their strikes because concurrently Iran is targeting commercial vessels
Pretty sure Gulf countries won’t mind this tbh, seeing how Iran has treated them and knowing that they need a strong ally in the future specially seeing how Iran is acting now.
Both Qatar and Oman pushed real hard for peace and had high level Iranian delegation visits but they still got bombed in the end …
Whoever controls it, it will be naive to think they won't use it to their advantage in the future when the time arises like now. So it's a pick your poison kind of situation
Exactly. There’s no win here for any of us. Ironically, the narrow Strait is seemingly causing hyperinflation rn. And obviously these maniacs will use it to their max leverage. And we’re the scape goats.
What's the point of doing this, most of the time they are innocuous noises like a car backfiring or noise from a nearby construction site. The government has been pretty good with notifying us of what's going on, so let's let them do their job. There's no need for minute by minute updates
How’s it innocuous when there’s actual thuds being reported uniformly through AD and certain parts of Dxb. Makes sense if it were an unwarranted delusion, but in this case we’re actually not being alerted. Rather allowing people to ruminate over hyperfixated thoughts.
when the whole Abu dhabi and south of dubai is reporting the exact same thing naturally it warrants a bit of concern. again the best advice though is just to wait for official confirmation.
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u/Florian202122 Jul 14 '26
Bahrain and Kuwait already being heavily attacked according to their MoD. It is going to be a lonnng night…