Iran live updates: UAE says it intercepted Iranian missiles and drones

The U.S. took out six small Iranian boats that were "threatening commercial shipping" on Monday, Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, told reporters during an update on "Project Freedom."

Cooper said that over the past 12 hours, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been launching missiles, drones and small boats toward ships the U.S. was protecting in the Strait of Hormuz, and that the U.S. "defeated each and every one of those threats" through defensive munitions. AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and others were used to "eliminate" the boats, he said.

No U.S. military ships have been struck, Cooper said.

The United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Defense said it is "currently engaging" with air attacks from Iran, and that its air defense systems were intercepting ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones.

This marks the first time the UAE, or any Gulf country, has come under significant attack by Iran since the ceasefire took hold in early April.

Multiple flights headed to the UAE are now diverting to Muscat, Oman, amid reports of drone and missile attacks, according to Flightradar24 data.

Amid the reports, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center also said a cargo ship was on fire off the coast of the UAE. The cause of the fire was not yet confirmed.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said no vessels have recently gone through the Strait of Hormuz, hours after the U.S. Central Command said two US-flagged commercial vessels had transited the waterway.

"No commercial vessel or oil tanker has passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past few hours," the IRGC said in a statement. "The claims made by American officials are baseless and entirely false. Any maritime movements that go against the declared principles of the IRGC Navy will face serious risks, and any vessels that violate these principles will be decisively stopped."

CENTCOM had said earlier that American forces are "actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping" and that two U.S.-flagged merchant vessels "have successfully transited through the Strait of Hormuz and are safely headed on their journey."

The United Arab Emirates' Foreign Ministry said on Monday that a tanker affiliated with the state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Company was targeted by two drones while transiting the Strait of Hormuz in what it called an "Iranian terrorist attack."