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The United Arab Emirates has closed Iranian-linked facilities in Dubai amid escalating tensions with Iran. The Iranian hospital, which opened in 1972 under the Shah, was shut down on Friday, with its website taken down and phone number disconnected.

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00:00Iranian-linked facilities in Dubai that have been closed as the Iran war was seen.
00:04The United Arab Emirates repeatedly targeted by Iranian fire.
00:10The Iranian hospital, opened in 1972 under the Shah in Dubai, stood closed on Friday.
00:16Its website that was down and its phone number disconnected.
00:20The hospital, while providing affordable medical care for decades,
00:24also had been linked to Iranian intelligence operations in the past,
00:27including an incident in which a Dubai police officer allegedly spied for cheaper health care for his daughter.
00:34The Financial Times, which first reported the closure, quoted an anonymous Emirati government official,
00:40saying institutions directly linked to Iran would be closed after being misused to advance agendas
00:46that do not serve the Iranian people and in violations of UAE laws.
00:51Emirati government officials did not respond to a request for comment.
00:55On Friday, the first day of Idul-Fitr holiday,
01:00the Iranian club in Bardubai earlier wrote on Instagram that it would close due to the current circumstances.
01:17In the following week, the
01:22The
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