Doha —
Even as President Donald Trump took to the White House podium to tout the military successes of his war on Wednesday night, Iranian drones and missiles rained down on a region bearing the brunt of the Islamic Republic’s stubborn retaliation.
The United Arab Emirates – its image as a glamorous safe haven already dented by a month-long barrage of nearly five hundred Iranian missiles and more than two thousand attack drones – was once again in Tehran’s firing line.
Just minutes before Trump highlighted the “swift, overwhelming” victories that he plausibly claims have degraded Iranian military capabilities, defense officials in the Gulf country reported their air defense…