One person was killed Saturday in the United Arab Emirates as Iran targeted five Arab countries in addition to Israel in response to strikes launched by Israel and Iran.

Israel and the US launched major joint strikes on Iran on Saturday, with waves of attacks on sites across the Islamic Republic as US President Donald Trump suggested that the eventual aim of the operation was the overthrowing of the regime.

Strikes targeted Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian, an Israeli official said. Other top regime and military commanders were also targeted, according to the official. The results of the strikes were not yet clear.

In response, Iran launched multiple waves of missiles at Israel as well as at Arab countries in the region — some of them hosting US military facilities — with at least one person killed in Abu Dhabi.

Saudi Arabia condemned the Iranian attacks targeting its neighbors in a statement released by the kingdom’s official press agency.

“The kingdom strongly condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the brutal Iranian aggression and the blatant violation of the sovereignty of the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the State of Qatar, the State of Kuwait, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,” said the statement.

There was no mention in the statement of Iran targeting Saudi Arabia — several explosions were heard in the capital Riyadh, but it was unclear if they were targeting the kingdom.

The United Arab Emirates Defense Ministry said “a worker of Asian nationality” was killed in a missile strikes in a residential area of the capital Abu Dhabi, where falling shrapnel also damaged some homes.

Abu Dhabi said it “reserves its full right to respond” and slammed the attacks........

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