{"id":113867,"date":"2026-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/menaplus\/2026\/04\/08\/a-new-frontier-in-the-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:27:29","slug":"a-new-frontier-in-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/menaplus\/2026\/04\/08\/a-new-frontier-in-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"A new frontier in the war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"><strong>Watch this space if the ceasefire fails:<\/strong> A drone from Iran targeted a Du building in Fujairah on Monday, resulting in a \u201cminor incident\u201d with no injuries reported, state news agency <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/ar\/article\/175ot38-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AA-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%85-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81\">Wam<\/a> reports. \u201c<strong>They are now targeting other industries and other infrastructure<\/strong>, which qualifies as a slight escalation,\u201d MENA Economist Hamzeh Al Gaood told EnterpriseAM. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"><strong>This marks the first time Iran targeted state-owned telecom infrastructure in the UAE<\/strong>, though it did previously target Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain. Du is responsible for a massive chunk of the UAE\u2019s digital and telecom infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"><strong>This development adds to the risk premium that had already existed since the start of the<\/strong> <strong>war. <\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s economic pain, and it\u2019s increasing the level of threat and risk on the GCC,\u201d Al Gaood added, explaining that there will be a risk premium attached to telecom infrastructure associated with the fact that investments might be needed to repair facilities. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"><strong>Plus: Iran is still targeting industrial sites.<\/strong> An office building belonging to tech firm Raneen Systems in the Industrial City of Abu Dhabi (ICAD) in Mussafah was also hit yesterday, resulting in one moderate injury, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/ar\/article\/175ot2x-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AB-%D8%B3%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B7-%D8%B4%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%85\">Wam<\/a> reported separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has moved to target more industries and infrastructure in the UAE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2699],"tags":[2538,2551,2590,2698,2562],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-113867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-innovation","tag-enterpriseam","tag-infrastructure","tag-iran","tag-tech-innovation","tag-uae","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"f24e738e-9926-442d-8b09-0fb4e0af7157","order":"4","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"A new frontier?","related_issue":[113860],"teaser":"Iran has moved to target more industries and infrastructure in the UAE","photo_link":"","related_sponsor":"","voice_url":"","en_translation_ref_id":"","section_story_id":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A new frontier in the war? 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