Tehran has struck military sites, US embassies, economic infrastructure and civilian buildings. At least a handful of people have been killed and hundreds injured. Airports were closed and airlines grounded. A defining image of Tehran’s reckless retaliation was that of projectiles streaking across the skyscraper-laden night sky of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, the region’s pre-eminent trade and tourism hub. Expats that came for the sun and low taxes were suddenly exposed to a version of the Middle East they did not bargain for.