This is The Guardian.

Today, chaos in the Gulf as Iran's future hangs in the balance.

This Saturday started like any other for Ed.

He has lived in Dubai for most of his life and says he's always felt completely safe there.

I've always seen it as like a mixture of the best parts of Europe and the best parts of America

kind of squeezed into one. And you don't feel like you're really, you don't feel like you're in the

Middle East. When he first heard the loud bangs at work on Saturday morning, he thought it was

building work. Then his friend showed him a text message. It was from the UK foreign office

warning of rocket attacks and telling them to seek shelter. He was like, mate, it's all kicking off.

And then from there it just kind of escalated.

We were getting told to stay put, to stay indoors, stay away from windows.

And within like an hour, just went from zero to 100.

Ed was rushing back to his apartment,

when more rockets hit the anti-missile systems right above his head.

I have a sunroof in my car, so I looked up and I could see these bangs that through the sunroof,

and then that's when the Fairmont Hotel, which is probably two, three hundred meters away from where I live. That blew up, something dropped into that and exploded.

I think a bit shrapnel from one of the drones.

And then I was running up to my flat and then the building shaking.

And then I'm like, so I got my stuff and then got out there,

not knowing when I was going to come back.

The war started with the US and Israeli assassination of Iran's supreme leader on Saturday.

Hundreds of Iranians have already been killed, including more than 165 in a direct airstrike on a school.

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