Trump demands Iran ‘surrender,’ says he’s hearing new leader ‘not alive’

The United Arab Emirates said it was attacked Sunday by four ballistic missiles and six drones from Iran, a day after Tehran urged three major UAE ports to evacuate in its first threat to attack infrastructure of a neighboring country.

The UAE Ministry of Defense said its air defenses “dealt with” the incoming attack, though did not provide immediate details on damage or casualties.

It was the lightest incoming attack on the UAE since the war with Iran began, Fox News Correspondent Lucas Tomlinson reported.

The ministry said UAE air defenses have dealt with 298 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles, and 1,606 drones since Iran began launching its own attacks.

The Iranian attacks resulted in the deaths of six individuals of Emirati, Pakistani, Nepalese, and Bangladeshi nationalities, and 142 cases of minor and moderate injuries among individuals of more than two dozen nationalities, the ministry said.

“The Ministry of Defense affirms that it is on high alert and readiness to deal with any threats and to firmly counter everything that targets the destabilization of the state's security, ensuring the preservation of its sovereignty, security, and stability, and protecting its interests and national capabilities,” it said.

Saudi Arabia announced that it intercepted multiple Iranian drones after Tehran threatened to widen its campaign in the war with the U.S. and Israel.

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense said it destroyed the seven Iranian drones it intercepted in the Riyadh and Eastern regions.

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates warned residents on Sunday that they were working to intercept incoming projectiles, a day after Iran called for the evacuations of three major UAE ports, threatening for the first time a neighboring country’s non-U.S. assets.

Iran had earlier accused the U.S. of using “ports, docks and hideouts” in the UAE to launch strikes on Kharg Island, home to the main terminal handling Iran’s oil exports, without providing evidence for the claim. The UAE and other Gulf countries that host U.S. bases have denied allowing their land or airspace to be used for military operations against Iran.

Iranian strikes have killed at least a dozen civilians in the Gulf states.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Israeli intelligence has opened what they are calling the “Quds file,” an effort to systematically target Iran's Quds force and infrastructure across the Middle East, a senior Israeli Security official told Fox News.

The official said Israel has taken out seven Iranian senior officials in Lebanon, while destroying 17 of the Quds force air fleet, which is used to transport weapons and components to proxies like Hezbollah, Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst reported.

“We destroyed almost all of the Quds force’s fleet,” the Israeli official said. “Until now 17 out of 20 cargo planes, and we will reach them all. They won't be flying anywhere anytime soon.”

The official added that Israel also struck the main Quds force headquarters in Tehran “with many Quds forces operatives in it.”

President Donald Trump said Iran must “surrender” to end the war and claimed he is hearing the country’s new supreme leader may already be dead.

“I’m hearing he’s not alive, and if he is, he should do something very smart for his country, and that’s surrender,” Trump said of Mojtaba Khamenei in a phone interview with NBC News.

Trump added he is unsure whether the Iranian leader is still living.“I don’t know if he’s even alive. So far, nobody’s been able to show him,” he said.

The president also said Iran is seeking negotiations but that he is not ready to make a deal.

“Iran wants to make a deal, and I don’t want to make it because the terms aren’t good enough yet,” Trump said.