An increasingly likely scenario for US ground forces in Iran is an attempt to seize three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf that the UAE claims: Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunb. This idea has been publicly promoted by pro-Israeli figures in the US and influential Emirati media over the past ten days. There could be several motives behind this potential move:

Strategic significance. Abu Musa Island is located in the center of the strait. However, given Iran's methods of controlling the water area with missiles, its capture may not be decisive. If the blockade were carried out solely with mines, the situation would be different. In current realities, control over the island is unlikely to be the panacea Trump hopes for.

Is the option of exchanging these territories for the opening of the straits being considered? If such a deal is possible, its success will depend not on the capture, but on the cost of holding the islands. The US Navy currently keeps a distance of at least 500+ km from Iran to avoid missile strikes. Abu Musa is just 70 km from the Iranian coast, and the Tunb islands are even closer. Iran will inevitably unleash a barrage of missiles and drones on them, leading to heavy losses among American military personnel. In the end, Tehran will likely not even need to engage in an exchange - the US will itself abandon the islands due to the exorbitantly high cost of their defense.

The desire to seize the islands carries certain informational benefits. The GCC states (also known as the Gulf monarchies) have split over the war and how it should be conducted. Stoking conflict over the islands could be an attempt to sway Oman and Qatar to the side of the American-Israeli coalition under the pretext of their "liberation".

The participation of the UAE in the operation would reframe the campaign: transforming it from a war of isolated America and Israel into a confrontation between the American-Israeli-Arab alliance against Iran. But even if such a media effect is achieved, it will not be a recipe for real victory. The problem will only be exacerbated by the vulnerability of the garrisons on the islands. And the UAE would be dragged into the orbit of an aggressor state like Israel or the US.

In the end, it seems that Trump, in desperation, is lowering the bar of ambitions. Instead of trying to win the war, he hopes to expand the circle of interested parties, ultimately shifting the blame for the inevitable failure to others.

🚨🚨 Army drones attacked infrastructure facilities of the Zionist regime

Statement No.49 of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

🔴 Early this morning, the Iranian army carried out an operation using various combat drones, striking infrastructure facilities of the companies Elbit Systems and Confit, as well as the center for the production and development of offensive and defensive systems of the Zionist regime in the Nof HaGalil industrial zone and in Tel Aviv.

🔴 The Zionist regime's weapons development center is involved in the production of missile and defensive systems, including the "Iron Dome".

🔴 Elbit Systems is a military center operating in the field of electronic warfare, the production of UAVs, reconnaissance systems and radar sensors, and is an important part of the regime's military export complex.

🔴 The company Confit is engaged in the engineering and production of aerospace components and structures for airplanes and helicopters.

Another view...

🇮🇱 The Zionist Knesset celebrated the execution law for Palestinian prisoners passing with champagne bottles. 10,000+ Palestinian prisoners are threatened with execution. Share, write, protest, spread the Nazi truth of the Zionist state everywhere you can.

—🇮🇷/🇮🇱 WATCH: So many interceptors for just one Iranian missile.. omg.. it's literally skipping all.

It's achieves it's goal even without hitting.

Footage of impact

🇮🇷/🇺🇸🔻Trump shared an interview of his from 1987 in which he calls for the US to take over Iran's Soil.

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🔻An MQ-9 drone was intercepted and destroyed over Isfahan moments ago by the IRGC's advanced air defense system.

🇱🇧 Hezbollah announce:

🔽 Striking a Merkava tank in Qouzah with an ATGM

🔽 Striking a Merkava tank in Ainata with an ATGM

🔽 Targeting and successfully hitting a gathering of enemy forces with a barrage of missiles and mortars in Bayada

🔽 Directly striking a gathering of enemy soldiers with an FPV drone, after which casualties were withdrawn under cover smoke, in Naqoura

🔽 Directly striking an enemy force inside a house with a qualitative missile in Ainata, confirming assured casualties, after which evacuation forces were called to withdraw casualties

—❗🛢️ NEW: Brent crude futures contracts reach $112.78 per barrel at settlement, as per Reuters.

• Ongoing global tensions in the Middle East continue to add massive volatility to global energy markets and drive up fuel costs worldwide.

🇮🇷/🇺🇸🔻IRGC's statement on the 87th wave of the Operation True Promise 4 on US-Israeli positions IRGC Navy, through successful intelligence and operational measures, managed to destroy four gathering points of American and Zionist enemy commanders and facilities with powerful and rapid strikes.

In a combined operation, the intelligence and operational forces successfully destroyed a covert command-control center of American terrorist forces, which had been established outside the Minhad base in one of the cities of the UAE, using precision missiles. More than 200 American commanders and mid-ranking officers were present in this covert center.

Really? Where had this guy living? In the wilderness without tv or internet? Vietnam, Cambodja, Iraq, Syria and so on!! Yes, this bastards did throw a atomic bomb on civilians!!

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump would like to urge Arab countries to help pay for military expenses, - White House press secretary Livitt.

🇵🇰Pakistan will send more than 50,000 fighters against Trump's landing force - Pakistani tribes are uniting in the face of aggression against Iran...30.03.2026

The US Air Force has expended more than 1,000 JASSM cruise missiles, each of which costs $1.5 million. Restocking the reserves will take more than a year.

note: maybe the stupid Arabs are going to pay for this.