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Iranian-linked facilities in Dubai have been closed as the Iran war has seen the United Arab Emirates repeatedly targeted by Iranian fire.

The Iranian Hospital, opened in 1972 under the shah in Dubai, stood closed Friday. Its website was down and its phone number disconnected.

The hospital, while providing affordable medical care for decades, also had been linked to Iranian intelligence operations in the past, including an incident in which a Dubai police officer allegedly spied for cheaper health care for his daughter.

The Financial Times, which first reported the closure, quoted an anonymous Emirati government official saying institutions “directly linked” to Iran would be closed after being “misused to advance agendas that do not serve the Iranian people and in violation of UAE laws.”

The Emirati government acknowledged the closures in a statement.

“Certain institutions directly linked to the Iranian regime and (Revolutionary Guard) will be closed under targeted measures after being found to have been misused to advance agendas that do not serve the Iranian people, and in violation of UAE laws,” it said.

The Iranian Club in Bur Dubai earlier wrote on Instagram it would close “due to the current circumstances.”