Dubai airport remains shut down after being hit by Iranian strike

Описание: (1 Mar 2026)
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 1 March 2026
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1. Driving shot of planes on tarmac
2. Driving shot of terminal and planes on tarmac
3. Driving shot of fuel containers, planes on tarmac
4. Driving shot of airport road signs reading (English/Arabic): "Terminal 1" and "Parking A, B"
5. Driving shot of Terminal 1
STORYLINE:
Dubai International Airport, the largest in the United Arab Emirates and one of the busiest in the world, remained shut down into Sunday after four people were injured as the Emirates condemned what it called a “blatant attack involving Iranian ballistic missiles.”

Strikes were also reported at other commercial airports in the region, including Kuwait International.

Other airports closed and canceled flights.

The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in a massive operation that President Donald Trump said killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei while targeting military capabilities and aiming to eliminate the threat of Tehran creating a nuclear weapon.

In counterattacks, Iran fired drones and missiles at Israel and aimed strikes at U.S. military installations in Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

Exchanges of fire continued into the night.

Though Iran did not publicly claim responsibility, the scope of retaliatory strikes that Gulf nations attributed to Iran extended beyond the American bases that it previously said it would target.

America and Israel's attack on Iran disrupted flights across the Middle East and beyond Saturday as countries around the region closed their airspace and key airports that connect Europe, Africa and the West to Asia were directly hit by strikes.

Hundreds of thousands of travelers were either stranded or diverted to other airports after Israel, Qatar, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain closed their airspace.

There also was no flight activity over the United Arab Emirates, flight tracking website FlightRadar24 said, after the government there announced a “temporary and partial closure” of its airspace.

That led to the closure of key hub airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, and the cancellation of more than 1,800 flights by major Middle Eastern airlines.

The three major airlines that operate at those airports — Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad — typically have about 90,000 passengers per day crossing through those hubs and even more travelers headed to destinations in the Middle East, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.

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