Smoke rises from Kuwait international airport after a drone strike on fuel storage in Kuwait City, Kuwait. (AP Photo/ File)

The fragile ceasefire in West Asia between US-Israel and Iran was at the brink when Tehran launched missile attacks at UAE and claimed to have attacked a US warship near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday as Washington and Iran wrestled to control the key waterway.

However, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of breaching the nearly four-week old truce and said that Washington and its allies have endangered the energy and shipping transit through the Strait of Hormuz.

01 UAE under fire

Since the ceasefire paused the conflict in the Gulf, it was the first time that the United Arab Emirates defended itself against Iranian strikes and the country’s defence ministry stated that it engaged 15 missiles and four drones fired by Iran.

Due to the renewed attacks, the education ministry of UAE shifted the schools to remote learning…