US President Donald Trump has said that Iran 'will be hit very hard' today and dubbed the country the 'loser of the Middle East', after Dubai Airport was evacuated following an Iranian drone attack. In a statement on Truth Social, Trump hit out at Iran's President Masoud Pezeshki, who earlier claimed that attacks against its Gulf neighbours would stop - only to be contradicted by Iran's Revolutionary Guards hours later. Elsewhere, it was reported today that the UK has halved the readiness time for aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales ahead of a possible deployment to the region. The comments came as intense Iranian fire targeted the Gulf Arab states on Saturday morning as Israel and the United States kept up their air strikes targeting the Islamic Republic. There were repeated attacks on Saturday morning on Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Source: Daily Mail March 07, 2026 14:38 UTC