The Arab neighbors urged Iran to limit and warned against potentially devastating consequences for the region after US strikes on Teheránský nuclear program increased the prospects of total war in the Middle East.
In Sunday statements, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Saudi Arabia violations of Iranian sovereignty, Katar warned that he would have “catastrophic consequences”, and Oman called it “unlawful”. These countries and the United Arab Emirates spent months an attempt to use their geopolitical and economic hens to strengthen nuclear interviews between Americans and Iran.
They spent a week since Israel launched an unprecedented attack on Tehran, which tried to prevent the US from intervening directly. The bombing on Saturday evening showed how much the hostages of the forces are completely out of control.
“I don’t think the Gulf States have great control of the events at this stage,” said Hasan Alhasan, head of the Middle East in IISS, Manama, Bahrain. “There is no guarantee that some of the warring parties, Iran, Israel or the US will take into account the interests in the Gulf of Persian.”
At a press conference on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister said he spoke to counterparts throughout the region who was “worried about the possible attack of the United States”.
“Almost everyone is very concerned and are interested in playing a role in the end of this aggression of Israel,” Abbas Araghchi said.
In the region there was evidence of growing concern, and people on supplies in UAE and Kuwait. Meanwhile, British Airways stopped flights to Dubai and Doha, two of the economic centers of the region.
It is a significant contrast before just a month ago when US President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Sae on his first scheduled foreign journey since returning to the office. There he offered the potential for trillions of dollars and investment between the US and the Gulf.
The leaders “create the future where the Middle East is defined by trade, not chaos,” Trump said in the Saudi capital, “where people of different nations, religions and confession build cities together, not bombing each other from existence.
The Arab Gulf states tried to use their natural resources and trillion dollar sovereign funds of wealth to diversify their economies and appear as important geopolitical players. During the American and Iranian nuclear interviews, they acted as key Go-Betweens and urged an agreement for regional stability and economic prosperity.
None of the three main players – Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah or Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – has not been accessible in recent weeks.
Israel and Iran have exchanged rockets for days as Trump publicly included the possibility of involvement of the US. In the end, he continued with a military event despite the concerns of the Gulf.
However, Persian Gulf officials argue that they have a choice but to continue diplomacy because they are potential damage to the collateral in the first conflict. Countries are home to tens of thousands of US soldiers and key military bases, worrying about any impact on their oil infrastructure, and are afraid of possible leaks of radiation from their neighbor’s nuclear sites.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has long warned against the strikes of Iranian nuclear facilities for this reason.
Other worries include Iranian strikes or attacks on American interests in the Persian Gulf-Teperan-Medical Houthis in Yemen on Sunday morning condemned American strikes and repeated their readiness to attack American ships and warships in the Red Sea.
If the Islamic Republic took an extreme step to the closing of the Hormuz Strait – which deals with around a quarter of the world’s oil trade – it can broadcast raw prices rising to $ 130 per barrel, according to Bloomberg’s economy.
“The central challenge of the Arab Gulf states is to prevent regional escalation from absorbing their territory while maintaining strategic ties with the US,” said Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, head of Emirates Policy Center, a tank based in Abu Dhabi. “They are likely to strive for the policy of pragmatic restrictions, intensified readiness for defense and diplomatic equalization to contain fallout.”
According to officials in the region, which quietly encourages anything that quietly encourages anything that returns the Iranian nuclear program, continues to worry about the prospects of the energy vacuum in Tehran and change chaos, which would insist on anonymity. The terrorism and sectarian war followed by the Iraqi War in 2003 and the Arab Spring was being built.
The decisions will be crucial in Tehran in the coming hours. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi described the American move as “outrageous” and added that “Iran reserves all the ways to prevent his sovereignty, interest and people”.
However, Iranian leaders will have to consider the possibility of retaliation against the American threats of other attacks.
“Our goal was to destroy the Iranian capacity of nuclear enrichment and cessation of a nuclear threat represented by the world sponsor of terror No. 1,” Trump said in a post on social media. “Iran, the Middle East, must now close peace. If they do not do so, future attacks will be much greater – and much easier.”
Hope in the capital cities of the Gulf of Persian is that these warnings will prevent the type of retaliation that could further threaten the safety of the Persian Gulf.
“For all in the region, it is now time to wait with bait and hope that Tehran and Washington are now dominated by colder heads when this main escalance has occurred,” said Ryan Bohl, senior analyst in the Middle East and North Africa at Rane Network.
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