I'm John Batchel, for Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracy,

with me as my co-host,

and we're following the drone and missile strikes launched by Iran in the region against

its Arab neighbors. Ahmed Shirari of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy joins us. He's

tracking all of these strikes.

Ahmed, I mentioned that on the headlines in the early part of this day,

the feature was a smoke cloud, dark smoke from a burning tanker truck on the ground at the Dubai airport in the UAE.

Have there been additional strikes of either drone or missiles launched by Iran these last hours?

Good day to you.

Good evening, John.

Yes, there was a strike that hit a moving vehicle in Abu Dhabi that killed, I'm not sure if it was a

Palestinian man or Palestinian woman, but that's what the Emirati authorities said.

They said that a resident with Palestinian citizenship was killed by an Iranian strike in Abu Dhabi.

There was also a strike on the port of Fajira on the Arabian Sea, about early morning in

the UAE time. It wasn't the first time that this port was hit. It's been hit multiple times over the past two weeks.

There's oil tankers usually dock in that port, and it's relatively close to whatever Iran is launching these drones and missiles from, because it's been, again, as I said, frequently targeted.

Bill, you have a question for Ahmed.

The Iran clearly is targeting its neighbors in order to get them to pressure the U.S.

to halt the operation in the Israelis as well.

Do you think this is working?

Are the Gulf countries going to the U.S. to ask them to

stand down, or is this hardening the Gulf countries against Iran? It depends on which

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