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Posted on 03/12/2026 4:22:46 AM PDT by RandFan
Expats claim they will leave Dubai and never return as they fear for their lives and see their businesses destroyed while missiles continue to rain down over the United Arab Emirates.
Once a tax-free haven attracting influencers from across the globe and thousands of Brits seeking warm weather and crime free streets, Dubai's carefully crafted image has been shattered and residents believe it is 'finished'.
The emirate, home to around 240,000 British expats including Rio and Kate Ferdinand, Luisa Zissman and Petra Ecclestone, has been targeted by constant Iranian missile and drone attacks as the regime strikes US allies in the Middle East.
Dubai has been the target of two thirds of Iran's missiles and three massive explosions rocked the city on Wednesday morning, with the international airport sustaining damage.
Four people were injured as two drones hit the terminal, while a string of major airlines cancelled all flights to the region for weeks.
Even the world famous Fairmont hotel on Palm Jumeirah was struck by Iran, while employees at western banks including Standard Chartered and Citi evacuated their offices amid threats from the Islamic Republic that they were the next targets of their bombing onslaught.
Four people have been killed so far and tens of thousands of residents and tourists have now fled in the weeks since the conflict began.
And those who remain face prosecution if they post videos of missiles overhead, despite constant phone alerts warning them to stay away from windows and seek shelter.
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The Iranians are ratcheting up hatred for the Ayatollahs.
There’s been a weird Twitter war over what is and is not happening in Dubai. Articles like this seem to be way out there.
This is exactly what happens when threats are ignored and rationalized away. Once psychopaths (Iranโs Mullahs) reveal themselves, they should be dealt with. Allowing them to prosper only makes the inevitable solution much more costly.
IRGC propaganda?
I have a friend who lives there. He appears to be out of there on a sudden vacation per his FB page.
Is he stuck there?
Probably a good time to get a good deal on Dubai real estate.
To those so foolish as to think Dubai was some sort of permanent paradise in the middle of a region of frequent conflict I would say:
TANSTAAFL
He works there. He posted from there when it started and then suddenly started posting from somewhere else.
Did Iran write this piece?
I'm not at all surprised that so many Brits re-located there from the UK. Nowadays, the UK is just not safe -- too many Muslims.
Muslims are a disease for which there is no cure except isolation.
Relocate to a Muslim country to escape the Muslims taking over your own country? No backbone, eh?
The UK’s Deep State did.
As for why...
Ask Lloyd’s.
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There are no muzzies in the UAE???
Arab countries are still primitive minded, no matter what modern veneer they wear or the modern toys they play with. All you can do with an Arabic country is trade with them and offer to teach them modernity. They are otherwise unhelpable.
That’s why Persians are not Arabs.
What a bunch of whiners.
This!
---- "The UK's Deep State did. As for why... Ask Lloyd's."
Excellent observations. Since the Daily Mail references Guardian UK, here is an excerpt from that article"
"Ironically, many of the tourists said they had come here to escape war. 'We're from Ukraine so unfortunately we came from one war zone to another, but that's life,' said Christina Hallis, 26, as she sipped a cocktail on a sun-lounger. 'I still feel safe here, I'm happy to come to the beach and we've enjoyed life here. You wouldn't know there's a war'.โGiven the ongoing situation and many players, it is very likely that the financial centers of the City of London -- of which Lloyd's is a part -- are finding their decades' long "special" -- in President Trump's parlance and stance -- relationship changing and not to their advantage.
Starmer and the Labour Party -- which had a hand in campaigning against Trump-Vance -- might have shot that "special relationship" in its own foot.
Bull's eye?
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