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For months, Iran believed its Arab neighbors were too weak and divided to fight back. They were dead wrong. A bombshell exposé by the Wall Street Journal has just revealed that the United Arab Emirates has been secretly bombing Iranian territory!
In early April 2026, right as a US-Iran ceasefire was supposedly taking effect, UAE Mirage 2000-9 fighter jets executed a covert, surgical strike on Iran’s Lavan Island oil refinery. With tacit approval from Washington and possible intelligence support from Israel, Abu Dhabi completely bypassed Iran’s mainland air defenses. In response, a furious IRGC launched over 400 ballistic missiles and 2,000 drones at the UAE—only to watch their massive retaliation get largely neutralized by Emirati THAAD and Patriot defense shields.
In this video, we analyze the devastating WSJ leak and the secret war reshaping the Middle East:
THE LAVAN OPERATION: How UAE Mirage jets and Wing Loong II drones surgically disabled a critical Iranian oil refinery without triggering a full-scale mainland war.
IRAN’S MASSIVE RETALIATION: Why the IRGC fired hundreds of missiles at Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and how the UAE’s billion-dollar defense shield held the line.
THE NEW ARAB DOCTRINE: How the UAE abandoned its policy of diplomatic neutrality to project hard military power directly into Iranian territory.
THE SECRET COALITION: The unspoken roles of the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia in facilitating this covert shadow war.If you like our analyses, you can support us by buying us a coffee ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/pprglobal
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