Iranian media channels are reporting massive explosions in Dubai and a fire at the Fujairah oil port, occurring days after the IRGC threatened to burn Middle Eastern energy infrastructure.
Iranian media networks are reporting a series of blasts and fires striking the United Arab Emirates on March 15, specifically targeting Dubai and the strategic oil port of Fujairah. These incidents follow direct threats from commanders in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to ignite all Middle Eastern energy infrastructure in retaliation for recent unprecedented US and Israeli airstrikes on Iranian military assets.
The hardline, state-aligned فارس بینالملل و سیاست خارجی (Fars News International) announced a "new explosion in Dubai" and the "occurrence of several massive explosions in the UAE." The pro-reformist channel حامیان پزشکیان (Pezeshkian Supporters) corroborated these claims, directly reporting "explosions in Dubai."
Simultaneously, multiple Iranian sources reported a "fire in the UAE's port of Fujairah." This incident was uniformly reported by the Pezeshkian Supporters channel, the IRGC-affiliated کانال اخبار سپاه پاسداران 🏴 via a brief alert, and the unlinked breaking news channel خبری پلاس|خبرفوری 🔖فوری (Khabari Plus). A subsequent update from Khabari Plus stated that "work at the UAE's Fujairah oil port has begun," though the channel did not specify if this referred to emergency firefighting efforts or standard port operations.
The reported explosions and fires at Fujairah—a critical crude oil terminal located just outside the Strait of Hormuz—align with the IRGC's recent vows to target regional energy supplies. With the Strait of Hormuz already blocked, Kuwaiti oil production halted, and global oil prices surging past $120 per barrel due to the ongoing US-Israeli-Iranian conflict, any physical damage to UAE oil hubs threatens to severely compound the global energy crisis.
The source message 'کار در بندر نفتی فجیره امارات آغاز شد' (work at the UAE's Fujairah oil port has begun) from Khabari Plus is briefly ambiguous out of context; it could imply that regular operations have resumed, or that emergency response work has commenced. It was translated and reported literally without speculation. None of the Iranian channels explicitly took credit for the incidents as attacks, referring to them only as fires and explosions.