For decades, Dubai thrived on a simple premise: that regional wars would never reach its skyline. Iran’s weekend strikes — hitting airports, ports and markets — have punctured that assumption. The damage may be containable. The doubt now spreading through global capital may not be
DUBAI/ABU DHABI: For decades, Dubai's sales pitch featured gleaming skylines, tax-free salaries, ease of doing business and something far more intangible: the unspoken promise that whatever was happening elsewhere in West Asia, this city was different. The conflicts that destabilised the region would somehow stop at Dubai's borders.
On Saturday, (February 28) that all changed. Iran's retaliatory strikes across the Gulf hit across Dubai's key sectors, landing on airports, hotels and ports. They also hit the psychological foundations of a city that had spent four decades constructing that identity as one of the world's most reliable places to do business in an unreliable neighbourhood.
On Saturday, (February 28) that all changed. Iran's retaliatory strikes across the Gulf hit across Dubai's key sectors, landing on airports, hotels and ports. They also hit the psychological foundations of a city that had spent four decades constructing that identity as one of the world's most reliable places to do business in an unreliable neighbourhood.