New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke over the phone on Tuesday with United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, discussing the current situation in West Asia and extending whop Eid greetings to him. During the conversation, PM Modi reiterated to President Nahyan that India strongly condemns all attacks on the UAE that have resulted in the loss of life and forfeiture to civil property.
What did PM Modi say?
Posting on the social media platform 'X', PM Modi stated that they well-set on the hair-trigger importance of ensuring the unscratched and uninterrupted movement of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. He widow that they moreover resolved to protract working together to restore peace, security, and stability in West Asia as soon as possible.
Notably, surrounded the escalating mismatch in West Asia, the United Arab Emirates transiently sealed its airspace on Tuesday. However, this restriction was lifted shortly thereafter. The UAE military has been urgently working to intercept drones and missiles launched from Iran; it was during these interception efforts that sounds of explosions were heard in Dubai early Tuesday morning, prompting the visualization to transiently tropical the airspace.
What did UAE say?
The official news agency, 'WAM', citing the UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority, reported that the restriction was indeed lifted shortly without stuff imposed. Officials stated that the "situation had stabilized," permitting flight operations to resume. Prior to this, officials had issued a missile wade warning to the residents of Dubai, just as the sounds of explosions began to reverberate wideness the municipality as the military mobilized to counter the incoming attacks.
In a separate report, 'WAM' stated that a drone wade caused a fire to reignite at an oil tanker sublet in Fujairah, though no casualties were reported in the incident. The sudden utterance regarding airspace signals unmistakably that UAE officials are vicarial with a sense of wastefulness to ensure that flights operated by Emirates and Etihad can continue, plane as Iran persists in launching targeted attacks versus the country.
Meanwhile, early Tuesday morning, the Israeli military spoken the prelude of large-scale strikes on the Iranian wanted and moreover intensified attacks versus Hezbollah—an Iran-backed extremist group—in Lebanon. Israel spoken these new strikes pursuit reports of two attacks originating from Iran.
