US envoy becomes 1st official to publicly confirm Israel supplied UAE with Iron Dome during Iran war

By Jacob Magid

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12 May 2026, 3:52 am

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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz speaks after the United Nations Security Council voted on a resolution calling for the unblocking of the Strait of Hormuz, during a UN Security Council meeting on Iran and the Middle East at UN headquarters in New York on April 7, 2026. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz becomes the first government official to publicly confirm that Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system has been used to shoot down Iranian missiles targeting the United Arab Emirates.

Waltz makes the comments in remarks at an Independence Day event hosted by the Israeli Mission to the UN in New York.

“We saw the UAE make use of the Iron Dome provided to it by Israel,” the Israel Hayom daily quotes Waltz as having said.

Waltz’s remarks are confirmed to The Times of Israel by a source present at the event.

Israel’s provision of an Iron Dome battery and soldiers to operate it was first reported last month by the Axios news site and later confirmed to The Times of Israel by two Arab diplomats familiar with the matter.