Dubai Abu Dhabi news highlights: Dubai Airport temporarily suspends operations after fire nearby, Iran's threat

Dubai Abu Dhabi news highlights: Smoke rises in the Fujairah oil industry zone, caused by debris after interception of a drone by air defences, according to the Fujairah media office, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, March 14, 2026.

Dubai Abu Dhabi news highlights: Iran's Media Operations Center has warned residents in specific areas of Dubai and Qatar capital Doha of possible attacks in the coming hours, Iran’s state-linked broadcaster Press TV said. This comes after Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran has "ample evidence" that US bases in the Middle East have been used to attack Iran, claiming missiles were launched from the UAE to attack the Kharg Island oil hub.

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Earlier in the day, Iran urged people to evacuate the Middle East's busiest port and two others in the United Arab Emirates, openly threatening a neighbouring country's non-US assets for the first time as its war with the United States and Israel entered a third week.

Tehran said the US had used “ports, docks and hideouts” in the UAE to launch strikes on Kharg Island, home to the main terminal handling Iran's oil exports, without providing evidence. It urged people to leave areas where it said US forces were sheltering.

Hours later, there was no sign of an attack on Dubai’s Jebel Ali port — the Mideast’s busiest — or the Khalifa port in Abu Dhabi. But debris from an intercepted Iranian drone hitting an oil facility sparked a fire at the third port, in Fujairah.

Fujairah port

A fire broke out at the Fujairah Port earlier after debris from an intercepted drone fell on the facility, the Fujairah Media Office said, as reported by CNN.

The incident came after Iran's military warned it could target ports and docks in the UAE in retaliation for a US strike on the critical Iranian oil export hub of Kharg Island.

On Sunday, oil-loading operations at the port resumed following the drone attack and fire, Bloomberg reported.

UAE denies role in attacks on Iran

The United Arab Emirates’ presidential advisor, Anwar Gargash, refuted Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi’s accusations that the US used the UAE territory to attack Tehran’s Kharg Island, calling it “a part of a confused policy that has misdirected its aim, lost its compass, and forsaken wisdom.”

Gargash said in a post on X that the UAE has the right to defend itself against Iran's ongoing strikes, but chooses to exercise restraint.

“Following the brutal Iranian attack on the UAE, Mr Abbas Araghchi emerges to accuse the UAE of aggression against Iran, as part of a confused policy that has misdirected its aim, lost its compass, and forsaken wisdom. The UAE has the right to self-defence in the face of this terrorist aggression imposed upon it, yet it continues to prioritise reason and logic, maintaining restraint and seeking an exit for Iran and the region,” he wrote.