Debris from interception strikes Oracle building in Dubai, UAE says

The U.S. military continued to search for a missing American airman after an F-15E fighter jet was shot down over southwestern Iran on Friday. One crew member has been rescued, but the second remains unaccounted for, with both U.S. and Iranian forces searching.

Iran and the U.S. confirmed Tehran downed the two-seat F-15E jet, while separately two U.S. officials said the pilot ejected from a U.S. A-10 Warthog fighter aircraft that crashed in Kuwait after being hit by Iranian fire.

Two Black Hawk helicopters engaged in the search for the missing crew member in Iran were hit by Iranian fire ⁠but made it out of Iranian airspace, two U.S. officials told Reuters.

The possibility that the airman could be captured has raised concerns in Washington about potential leverage for Tehran. The incident marks the first time Iranian forces have successfully downed a U.S. combat aircraft since the war began.

President Donald Trump said Saturday in a Truth Social post: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out – 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.”

On March 26, Trump said he would extend a pause in attacking Iran‘s energy facilities by 10 days to April 6 at the request of the government of the Islamic Republic.

In a televised address from the White House on Wednesday, Trump told Americans that he expects the Iran war to last another two to three weeks, but said the conflict was close to an end.

“We are going to finish the job, and we’re going to finish it very fast,” he said.

Iran’s foreign minister, ⁠in principle, ‌left the door open for peace talks with the U.S. amid talks about mediation from Pakistan, but he gave no sign ⁠of Tehran’s willingness to bow to Trump’s demands.

“We are deeply grateful to Pakistan for its efforts and have never refused to go to Islamabad. What we care about are the terms of a conclusive and lasting END to the illegal war that is imposed on us,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on X.

Pakistan told the Associated Press on Saturday that efforts to broker a ceasefire are “right on track.”

Iran continued launching waves of missiles and drones across the region, with the United Arab Emirates saying it intercepted dozens of incoming threats in the past 24 hours.

The office of U.S. tech giant Oracle in Dubai was damaged by falling debris, the city’s media office said, as Iran continued to fire projectiles across the Middle East in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes.

“Authorities confirm that they responded to a minor incident caused by debris from an aerial interception that fell on the facade of the Oracle building in Dubai Internet City,” the Dubai Media Office said in a post on X. No one was injured in the incident, the media office said.

Oracle didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment emailed by CNBC.

A CNBC journalist in Dubai reported hearing multiple interceptions overnight.

Separately, a projectile struck near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant overnight, killing at least one worker and damaging part of the facility, according to Iranian authorities. The International Atomic Energy Agency said there was no increase in radiation levels but warned of the risks of attacks near nuclear infrastructure.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi warned that repeated strikes on the site could trigger a wider regional disaster, while signaling Tehran is not prepared to quickly enter negotiations, saying any talks must result in a “conclusive and lasting” end to the war.

Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom evacuated a further 198 ⁠of its staff from the Bushehr nuclear ​plant, Russian news agencies reported. Rosatom has been evacuating staff from the ⁠plant ‌since the Iran war broke ⁠out at the end of February.

Still, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened attacks on a swath of U.S. tech companies with operations in the Middle East, including Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and Google.

The Guard warned on Tuesday that 18 tech companies would be considered as “legitimate targets” in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

“From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed,” they said in a Guard-affiliated Telegram channel.

The list of companies also included Cisco, HP, Intel, IBM, Dell, Palantir, JPMorgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing and UAE-based artificial intelligence company G42.

James Henderson, CEO of risk management firm Healix, said the rise in threats against tech companies is not a flash in the pan, but is a sustained pattern.

“Tech assets are now treated as part of the conflict, not peripheral to it,” Henderson told CNBC.

“It also signals that future crises may target data centers and cloud platforms as much as traditional strategic sites,” he added.

Iran struck Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East in early March, causing outages in a number of apps and digital services in the United Arab Emirates.

Iranian state media reported air strikes at a petrochemical zone in southwestern Iran, with five people reported injured so far. A projectile also hit an auxiliary building near the perimeter of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant, the Tasnim news agency said, killing one person. The operations of the plant were unaffected.

Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom evacuated a further 198 of its staff from the site on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported, in evacuations already planned before the latest incident.

The Israeli military, meanwhile, said it had carried out “a wave of strikes” on ‌Tehran.

Israel has been waging a parallel campaign against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon after the militant group fired at Israel in support of Iran. Early on Saturday, Israel’s military said it was striking the militants’ infrastructure sites in Beirut.

— Reuters contributed to this report.