En la primera de una serie de tres partes, Agha Hussein investiga los esfuerzos de los países ricos del Golfo Árabe para alejar a Siria de la posguerra de Irán invirtiendo fuertemente en su reconstrucción de posguerra.
The US and their Gulf Countries and scrambling to salvage what’s left of their diplomatic clout following their failed venture in Syria.
The Middle East is metamorphosing. New fault lines are emerging, yet Trump’s foreign policy ‘hawks’ are still trying to stage ‘old movies’ in a new ‘theatre’. The ‘old movie’ is for the US to ‘stand up’ Sunni, Arab states, and lead them towards confronting ‘bad actor’ Iran. ‘Team Bolton’ is reverting back to the old 1996
El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Bahrein también anunció que "todas las opciones" siguen abiertas para el manejo de Qatar.
Tensions between the Gulf Arab states continue to rise today, with Saudi Arabia leading a new round of threats against Qatar, with Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry insisting that “all options” remain open for
The cohesion of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which includes all Arab Gulf countries, seems to be cracking.
UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, openly stated that the GCC was facing a major crisis, as Qatar seems to be opening up to Iran. Gargash made his comments on Twitter less than a week after Saudi Arabia and the UAE signaled frustration at Qatar. The simmering conflict between the UAE and Saudi Arabia on one side and Qatar on
Trump’s comfort with transitioning his general hostility into one directed at all things Iran did not go unnoticed.
In his four months in office, President Trump has steadily been rebranding himself away from the outsider candidate willing to drift far afield of the conventional wisdom of US leadership, and toward a rarely well-spoken, and oftentimes downright surly facsimile of a modern, mainstream US president.
