Iran’s Army says it has targeted the US radar stations and a site for the deployment of American military forces in the United Arab Emirates with invading drones, amid an ongoing unprovoked war of aggression by a US-Israeli military coalition against the Islamic Republic.

In a statement on Monday, the Army said its invading drones carried out strikes overnight targeting the enemy’s radar stations in the UAE, responsible for detecting and tracking Iran’s missiles and combat drones.

In its latest wave of retaliatory strikes against American military assets in the region, the Army’s explosive drones also hit US troop positions in the Emirates.

Since the United States and the Israeli regime started unprovoked military aggression against Iran on February 28, Iranian ballistic missiles and drones have repeatedly hit US facilities in the Persian Gulf countries and the Israeli-occupied territories.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said on Sunday that it hit and destroyed a Boeing E3 Sentry surveillance aircraft belonging to the US Air Force in a retaliatory attack against a US-run military installation in Saudi Arabia.

Images circulated on social media platforms show that an Iranian projectile has hit the most important and sensitive section of the aircraft near its tail, where the expensive AN/APY2 reconnaissance radar is lifted.

This came after the IRGC said a warehouse storing Ukrainian anti-drone systems was destroyed in a missile operation in Dubai, the UAE.

War in the Middle East is having an uneven impact on global economies but “all roads” lead to higher prices and slower economic growth, an influential economic body has warned.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which advises on policy and gives financial aid to member countries, said it was stepping up support, especially to the most vulnerable economies.

The war’s impact is “both global and highly uneven”, with some countries likely to face a renewed cost-of-living squeeze, IMF economists wrote in a blog post on Monday.

Large energy importers in Asia and Europe are bearing the brunt of higher fuel prices and input costs due to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has caused shipments of oil and gas to grind to a halt.

Countries like the UK and Italy have been particularly exposed by their reliance on gas-fired power, while France and Spain were relatively protected by their greater use of nuclear and renewable energy sources, according to the IMF.

The organisation also warned of mounting concerns about food prices shooting up because of disruption to shipments of fertiliser from the Middle East.

“The interruption of crop-nutrient supplies from the Gulf comes just as planting season begins in the Northern Hemisphere, threatening yields and harvests through the year and pushing food prices higher,” it said.

The most vulnerable countries will “bear the heaviest burden”, with people in low-income countries spending a bigger proportion of their incomes on food.

“Although the war could shape the global economy in different ways, all roads lead to higher prices and slower growth,” the IMF warned.

The ultimate impact depends on how long the war lasts and how much damage it does to infrastructure and supply chains, but the world may “settle somewhere in between – tensions linger, energy stays costly, and inflation proves hard to tame”, it wrote.

The IMF said it was supporting member countries, of which it has around 190, with policy advice and, where needed and co-ordinated with the international community, financial assistance.