The lavish and ultramodern city of Dubai also came under the radar amid the massive unrest in the Arab world, as grief-stricken Iran unleashed strikes on multiple nations in the Middle East following the killing of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several other top leaders in a coordinated attack carried out by the United States and Israel.
Khamenei’s killing and the large-scale military operation in Iran by the US and Israel pushed Tehran into a state of frenzy. The Khamenei-less Islamic Republic launched heavy retaliatory strikes on American military bases across the Gulf and on Israel, and also targeted the region’s major commercial and tourism hub, Dubai, the city of skyscrapers, along with nearby Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.
