Israel Confirms Iron Dome Transfer to UAE During Operation Roaring Lion
🛡️ ABU DHABI — The UAE was under Israeli air defense while publicly staying neutral. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: An Israeli minister confirming the Iron Dome transfer retroactively reframes UAE's entire conflict posture — Abu Dhabi wasn't a bystander, it was a protected partner. For Tehran, this collapses the fiction of Gulf neutrality. Iran now negotiates in Doha knowing its southern flank had Israeli coverage it couldn't see. Every Abraham Accords state just moved closer to a formal defense axis.
