Drone Hit Sets Fuel Tank Ablaze Near Dubai Airport
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Up front next, the breaking news, Iran ramping up strikes tonight, even as Trump claims Iran has been obliterated as allies snubbed Trump's calls for help tonight. |
| 0:11.7 | Plus, Trump will not rule out seizing Iran's Karg Island. |
| 0:15.5 | So what kind of U.S. special forces would this take? |
| 0:18.2 | What are the risks? |
| 0:19.4 | And why has Trump been talking about taking out this |
| 0:22.1 | eight square mile island since 1988? Plus more breaking news. Trump says he's open to the idea of, |
| 0:29.5 | quote, taking Cuba as the country's electric grid collapses amid a U.S. oil blockade. The entire |
| 0:35.5 | country of Cuba tonight, we understand without power. Let's go |
| 0:38.5 | out front. And good Monday evening. I'm Aaron Burnett and welcome to this special edition of |
| 0:45.1 | Outfront, the war with Iran. The breaking news, Iran ramping up this hour. Tonight, massive explosions |
| 0:50.8 | in the heavily fortified green zone in Iraq, where the U.S. Embassy is located. |
| 0:55.8 | In fact, that embassy compound was actually hit after a separate drone hit a nearby hotel. |
| 1:00.6 | So we understand that is happening now. Also a drone strike hitting a fuel tank near Dubai International |
| 1:06.0 | Airport. Jaw-dropping video there when you see that in the distance. |
| 1:10.5 | Thick black smoke, that's the world's busiest airport. |
| 1:14.1 | Again, it's still just jaw-dropping to think about where we are. |
| 1:17.0 | Flights turned around in mid-air, the airport shutting down again temporarily. |
| 1:21.2 | Those strikes coming, though, at the same time that Trump claimed that Iran has been obliterated. |
| 1:27.5 | Our powerful military campaign to end the threats posed by the Iranian regime continued in full |
| 1:35.8 | force over the past few days. They have been literally obliterated. |
| 1:48.1 | Well, Trump may say that Iran, though, remains defiant, and the strait of Hormuz is still closed to U.S. and European ships. For roughly three weeks, |
| 1:53.0 | roughly 20 percent of the world's oil supply has been at a standstill now, and driving up |
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