the only people who might do a false flag is Israel. but they would be eating missiles too incase of a major war with the US. so its unlikely they would want to commit suicide.
look at history people. if the US wants war, it will go to war. it doesn't need to find an excuse. it will invent 1 like the gulf of Tonkin, incubators, or wmd etcetc..
to me Iranian behaviour in reporting this, and the wahabi/American reactions are more consistent with some sort of Iranian action. UAE has been asking for it for a while. Iran has made threats about not letting anyone export in the straight of hormuz incase IRan wasn't allowed..
it was beyond time Iran sent a message. and this would be the perfect message. UAE and Saudi have to play this down to save face. they cant go on and say "yea iran attacked us, but were too afraid to do anything about it now, but we strongly urge our anglo American brothers to go and fight for us instead"