Dubai: Yemeni fighters supported by Iran launched a driving drone in the United Arab Emirates which caused a deadly explosion and fire outside the capital, Abu Dhabi, raised security risks in the oil export area at a critical time.
One of the biggest attacks that until now in the UAE land lit a fire at Abu Dhabi’s main airport on Monday and burning fuel trucks in the nearest industrial area, killing three people.
It happened a few days after Yemeni Houthi fighters warned Abu Dhabi by intensifying air campaigns against them.
Crude oil extended the increase to the highest level in seven years on Tuesday after the attack on the UAE, OPEC’s third largest oil producer.
Iran’s old support from Houthi means the incidence can struggle regional diplomatic efforts to facilitate friction and talks to restore the 2015 Tehran nuclear agreement with the world’s power.
Attack underlines the threat to civil infrastructure and regional energy, said Torbjorn Soltvedt, an analyst at the company-company-intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.
“It will regard the observer of the oil market, which also oversees the ongoing track of nuclear talks between the US and Iran,” he said.
“With the negotiators of time, the risk of setbacks in the security climate in this region has increased.” Introduction Investigations showed drones falling on both incidents and may have triggered the explosion, the WAM news agency managed by the UAE state.
Two Indians and one Pakistan were killed and six others were injured in a fuel tank fire close to the oil group storage facility managed by the government, the police said Abu Dhabi.
Adnoc said the attack took place at 10 am.
Local time and that all employees’ victims.
The Persian Gulf has seen a series of attacks on shipping and oil facilities because the US withdrew from the nuclear agreement with Iran in 2018.
Washington has blamed them on Iran’s supported militias, including Houthi in Yemen, where a military coalition led by Saudi from where UAE is The section has struggled against the group since 2015.
Houthis regularly attacked Saudi Arabia with missiles and drones.
The strike on the main Saudi oil facility in 2019 shook the global oil market and raised concerns about new conflicts in the Middle East.
Strategically strategically significantly strategically because it is located on the water path that connects the red sea and the Gulf of Aden which is a channel for most of the world oil.
The conflict there has killed tens of thousands of people and created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
Houthis was behind the attack but “was too weak to have an impact on the security and stability of” state, said Anwar Gargash, an UAE presidency advisor.
A Houthi leader said the group would do more attacks on the UAE.
“This operation is the introduction and there are still many surprises in our military forces,” Abdulmalik al-ejri told Al-Masirah.
A Houthi spokesman said the attack involved five ballistic missiles and armed drones.
Not immediately possible to verify information.
The group also targeted Dubai airport, a spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement.
The UAE authority did not report any attack in Dubai, the country’s commercial hub, which currently hosts Expo 2020.
The UAE will respond by asking the US to restore Houthis to a list of terrorist organizations and see to build pressure through the United Nations.
The Security Council, someone who is familiar with the government’s thinking said.
The US removed the appointment a year ago as part of the urge to end the Yemeni war, but efforts flounder.
Houthis also claimed responsibility for previous attacks on the UAE in 2017 and 2018.
UAE began to withdraw from Yemen at the end of 2019, in part to prevent interesting strikes in their own land, but maintained relations with separatist groups and increased air in a few weeks.
The latest attacks followed the uptick in maritime attacks as talks to revive the nuclear agreement entering the critical stage.
“In the past year, we have seen fierce escalation in several fields in Yemen,” Fawaz Gerges said, the Middle East political professor at the London School of Economics.
“Talks by UAE and Saudi with Iran, both secrets or public, are not enough to obscure geopolitical and strategic competition that continues to open.”