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UAE intercepts drone after US and Iran exchange attacks

The UAE says it intercepted a drone coming from Iran and rejected 'false' reports of an attack on its Al Menhad airbase.

President Donald Trump vowed a "hard" response to Iranian attacks on American forces, referring to Iran as a "failed nation" in a Monday interview with Fox News. Following Tehran's retaliatory strikes on US targets in the Middle East, the President pledged America would "hit Iran hard" in response. Iran's strikes occurred after American forces had launched missiles against an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump denied Iran's claim that an oil tanker had hit mines near the same strategic waterway, instead stating that Iran's military, air force, and currency were non-existent. The President claimed the nation's inflation stood at 300 percent and said Iran's leadership was "in disarray and incapable of properly representing the country."

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