Iran military warns UAE over attacks on disputed Gulf islands

Cranes, a storage tank of an oil refinery and wind turbines at the deep-water commercial and industrial port of Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, southern France, on March 20, 2026. [AFP]

Iran's military warned the United Arab Emirates on Saturday against allowing attacks from its territory on two disputed islands in the Gulf, near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

"We warn the United Arab Emirates if any further aggression originates from its territory against the Iranian islands of Abu Musa and Greater Tunb in the Persian Gulf, Iran's powerful armed forces will subject Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE to heavy strikes," the military's operational command Khatam Al-Anbiya said in a statement carried by Tasnim news agency.