Graeme Wood

Right now means you're going under the eyes of Iranian missile launchers as well as the United States.

So it would take a pretty brave crew to want to do that.

Yeah, that's right.

You know, Dubai at that point, I think it's still the case today.

The United Arab Emirates was getting more incoming Iranian drones and missile strikes than than anywhere else.

So I was there almost from the very beginning of the war.

And you'd hear the interceptions.

I witnessed a couple of the hits and got to see what Dubai looked like, which I think you referenced earlier that the information war here, too, which is.

a pretty extraordinary thing to watch on social media when you're in the place that's the subject of the social media speculation.

So there's a lot of discussion of how Dubai was quote-unquote over, that the model was finished, and that people were fleeing.

There were refugees at the border.

And that was a mismatch from what I saw while there.

There's certainly fewer people who are going there as holidaymakers

but the place was mostly functioning as it used to but with some booms in the background now dubai doesn't have the network of bomb shelters that israel which is receiving also a lot of iranian attack has so what do people do for safety when when the booms begin well at that point and the numbers aren't that much higher so far the the number of reported dead in the entire country is still in the single digits so

In general, it wasn't as if there were explosions happening that were causing mass casualties.

But yeah, there's nothing you can do.

If a place is not built as a security state the way Israel has had to be, then you just go on with life.

And so I went to shopping malls, supermarkets, restaurants, and all of it was just still going on.

There weren't even missile alerts that would cause people to go there.

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