The strikes hit drone and missile storage depots earlier this month, per people familiar. Both states have small air forces flying US and European aircraft, but weren’t willing to keep absorbing Iranian attacks without responding, Tehran has concentrated its retaliation on both for weeks, hitting Kuwait’s airport fuel tanks and a Bahraini desalination plant. Saudi Arabia joined UAE strikes earlier in the war and is now reassessing. Oman and Qatar are still holding their balanced line. Neither government commented.

Araghchi’s warning follows Tehran summoning Ukraine’s chargé d’affaires yesterday over the alleged strike on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea. Kyiv has not confirmed involvement. It opens a second front in Iran’s confrontation, until now its retaliation has been aimed at US bases in the Gulf

Spokesman Esmail Baghaei dismissed reports of US-Iran talks as media speculation, saying no negotiations with Washington are taking place. The discussions being misread as such, he said, are with Oman, focused on working out arrangements for the Strait of Hormuz.