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Social media influencers have long boasted of feeling safer in the United Arab Emirates than in their home countries. Some content creators are doubling down, even as Iran targets the Gulf – and the UAE tightens its grip

The United Arab Emirates has long sold itself to tourists and expatriates alike as one of the safest places in the world, seemingly untouched by the wars that define much of the Middle East.