Al Minhad Air Base

Yeah, I've never been, man.

Like, I never did the Iraq deployment or went into – I did the Dubai thing in and out, you know, in and out of Al-Minhad, but I never got out of there, mate.

But fascinated.

We'll come back and talk about, you know, what are you doing in Baghdad, of all things.

They've been running this operation for months, methodically, incrementally escalating the operational tempo, probing defenses, calibrating responses, studying American reaction times and escalation thresholds.

Phase 31 specifically targeted two installations, Ahmad al-Jaber airfield in Kuwait and al-Minhad airbase in the United Arab Emirates.

The weapon system deployed Khaybar Shikhan.

The name in Persian means castle breaker.

The economic pressure campaign has failed on its own stated metrics.

Signal 3 Iran executes Phase 31 of Operation Saika.

Khyber Shikhan strikes on Ahmad al-Jubeir in Kuwait and al-Minhad in the UAE in the same 48-hour operational window.

Patriot batteries at both locations fail to achieve clean intercepts.

His role gave him a unique insight into the human stories that existed behind the headlines and the politics.

Well, I flew to Afghanistan via our Manhattan Air Base in the UAE, where we had the Australian headquarters in the Middle East.

And the first thing that happened when I arrived there was I went to a wrap service, a funeral, for a young soldier named Ben Renato, whose casket was being brought through on Manhattan on the way back to Australia.

And so...

They did.

The intelligence specifically mentions the Muwaffaq Salty Air Base in Jordan and the Al-Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates.

Yes.

Now, wait a second.

Israeli defense officials, even while issuing those warnings, maintained that their working assessment was that Iran had no near-term intention of striking Israel directly.

Turning to the wider battlefield, there was no report of a third consecutive night of Iranian missile and drone launches against Kuwait or the United Arab Emirates following the wave that struck the Ahmad Al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait and, according to Iran's Army, al-Minhad Air Base in the Emirates earlier in the week.

A senior American official said those attacks had not affected any facility housing American forces.

President Trump said Thursday that the United States might strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain facility, the deeply buried site near Natanz and Isfahan believed to house relocated centrifuge infrastructure, very soon, though he offered no specific timeline.

The rest of the world sees how weak and pathetic the United States is.

And just look overnight, Iran attacked last night Al Jabr Air Base in Kuwait and the Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE with missiles and drones.

That follows all the other strikes I was talking about.

There was no comment from military officials or Trump yet.

Iran's military said it struck satellite communication systems, warehouses and fighter jet hangars at Ahmed al-Jabbar Air Base in Kuwait.

Separately, it said missiles and drones targeted U.S. troops and radar stations at Al-Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates.

The attacks follow U.S. strikes across southern Iran Tuesday that Iran's health minister said killed 18 civilians and wounded over 100 people.

The toll includes four people killed and 67 wounded when the U.S. bombed a wedding ceremony in Sariq.