Moment Iran hits Dubai airport in suicide drone attack as Israel launches fresh wave of strikes on Tehran: live updates

Video footage has captured the moment that Iran hit Dubai Airport in a suicide drone attack.

The drone can be seen travelling through clear skies before disappearing from view.

A huge cloud of smoke can then be seen erupting as the drone makes impact.

The attack caused the entire airport to be evacuated and all operations to be suspended. A fire was reported at Terminal 3.

By Will Potter

President Trump has privately expressed ‘serious interest’ in deploying US soldiers to Iran, according to military sources.

Trump has told White House advisors that he will need troops on the ground to complete his ‘vision’ for a post-war Iran, which he hopes to control in a similar way to Venezuela, insiders told NBC News.

US officials, who were not named, told the outlet that Trump is not focusing on a full-scale invasion of Iran, but instead would want a small contingent of troops to deploy for strategic purposes.

The conflict has so far involved only air and naval munitions and deploying troops on the ground in Iran would be the first time the US has done so since withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2021.

Iran says it has has targeted an oil tanker with a suicide drone in the Strait of Hormuz, after banning vessels from passing through the vital shipping route.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said today they had targeted the tanker, Prima, which sails under the flag of Malta, with an ‘exploding drone’ after it ignored ‘repeated warnings’.

‘This morning, an oil tanker with the trade name Prima was hit by an exploding drone after ignoring repeated warnings from the IRGC naval forces regarding the prohibition of traffic and the insecurity of the Strait of Hormuz,’ the Guards said in a statement carried by Tasnim news agency.

The Guards earlier said they were ‘waiting’ for US forces to escort ships through the strait.

Members of the US military offloaded equipment from a US Air Force C-5 Galaxy at RAF Fairford last night, after the UK granted permission for America to use its bases for defensive operations.

The biggest plane in the US armoury, its cargo bay can carry two M1 Abrams main battle tanks, six Apache helicopter gunships or up to 36 military vehicles.

It flew in to Gloucestershire from Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas yesterday ahead of the first B1-bomber to land from the 7th Bomb Wing that is based there.

Operations at Dubai International Airport have ‘partially resumed’, a spokesperson has said.

Some flights are said to be taking off following a drone attack which caused a fire at the airport earlier today.

But passengers were warned schedules ‘continue to change’ and told not to travel to the airport unless their flight had been confirmed.

Earlier, airline Emirates said that some of its services had resumed following the earlier evacuation of the airport.

Armed militia Hezbollah said on Saturday it confronted Israeli troops that infiltrated an east Lebanon town overnight, with Lebanese authorities reporting at least 16 killed in Israeli strikes on the area.

In a statement, Hezbollah said its fighters had ‘observed the infiltration of four Israeli enemy army helicopters from the Syrian direction’.

After landing and disembarking, the advancing troops ‘were engaged’ by a group of Hezbollah fighters as they reached a cemetery in the town of Nabi Sheet, Hezbollah said.

‘The clash escalated after the enemy force was exposed,’ it added, saying the Israeli troops launched intense strikes before evacuating.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which minutes ago announced a new wave of strikes in the cities of Tehran and Isfahan in Iran.

After Israel launched fresh strikes in the south of Beirut, Lebanon overnight, images show the scale of the damage.

On Friday, Lebanese authorities said that 217 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since Saturday.

Israel has confirmed that 80 fighter jets were involved in broad strikes on Tehran overnight, as it continues to target the regime and terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Overnight targets in Iran included a military university, ballistic missile storage facilities and missile launch strikes.

Explosions have been reported in Tehran and throughout central Iran.

AS the Middle East war entered its eighth day an American bomber landed in Britain amid US warnings of a ‘surge’ in strikes on Iran.

The 146ft B-1 Lancer arrived at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on Friday evening after Sir Keir Starmer granted permission for ‘defensive’ US action against Iranian missile sites from UK bases.

Questions linger over the UK’s future role in the conflict, with Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggesting RAF jets could legally strike Iranian missile sites being used to attack British interests in the Middle East.

Sir Keir has defended his decision not to permit America to use British bases in the opening assault against the Tehran regime, suggesting it could have been unlawful and arguing the Government must keep a ‘cool head’.

The Prime Minister agreed on Sunday to allow the US to strike Iran defensively from Fairford and Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean.

Qatar authorities have said the country’s defence systems have successfully intercepted a missile attack, minutes after the Iranian President promised an end to assaults on countries in the region.

The Qatari Defence Ministry issued an alert of ‘heightened threat’ to those in the country before sending a second message informing residents that a missile had been intercepted.

It comes after Iran’s President Pezeshkian apologised for striking its neighbours and promised to end attacks.

The Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has apologised for carrying out strikes on regional neighbours this morning and pledged to stop – after launching attacks across the Middle East overnight.

In comments on Saturday morning, he said Iran’s temporary leadership council had approved the suspension of attacks against neighboring countries unless an attack on Iran came from those countries.

The announcement came as Iran continued to launch attacks in the region in response to US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic.

Pezeshkian also described the American demand for an ‘unconditional surrender’ as a ‘dream that they should take to their grave’.

Pezeshkian said:

I apologise to neighbouring countries.

Azerbaijan has said it has foiled several acts of ‘terrorist’ sabotage planned by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including a plot to attack a major oil pipeline running through the South Caucasus to Turkey.

The targets included the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, the Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan, an Ashkenazi synagogue, and a leader an ancient Jewish community in Azerbaijan called the Mountain Jews, according to a State Security Service statement cited by the Azertag state news agency late on Friday.

The Azerbaijani statement came just a day after Baku vowed to retaliate for what it said was an incursion of four Iranian drones into its Nakhchivan exclave, which injured four people and damaged airport infrastructure. Iran flatly denied it sent the drones into Azerbaijan.

Baku said an investigation found two Iranian citizens and an Azerbaijani national had colluded to bring over seven kilograms of the C-4 explosive into Azerbaijan on the instructions of the IRGC. Authorities have issued international arrest warrants for four people.

Iran has not commented on the statement.