{"id":85997,"date":"2026-08-31T08:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85997"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:08:30","slug":"drone-intercepted-over-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/drone-intercepted-over-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Intercepted Over UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates said it intercepted an Iranian drone over its waters Monday, an attack that comes after the\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">United States and Iran<\/a><\/span> exchanged fire over the weekend for the first time in a month.\u00a0Iranian officials said two people were killed and several others injured in the U.S. attack Sunday night on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by launching missiles at U.S. sites in Jordan, which were intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>During the lull in fighting, the U.S. has been ratcheting up\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bessent-interview-iran-sanctions-bank-68d1bb0817c9f83eaa34e9ec643690fa\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">economic pressure on Iran<\/a><\/span>\u00a0with the hope of forcing concessions out of Tehran, including reopening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The United Arab Emirates said it intercepted an Iranian drone over its waters Monday, an attack that comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85998,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85997\/revisions\/85998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}