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US ignites Iran war, but Gulf Arab states pay the price, Gulf sources say
2026-03-11
Kwitcher bitchin’ — you lot are getting off cheap. Where would you have been once the Mad Mullahs got their eleven nukes, as they intended? Were America and Israel not involved, Iran would have gone directly after you, to turn the Ummah Shiite again, like at the time of the Fatimids and to get tour oil. And what price did you pay for the last round after we drove back Al Qaeda and ISIS, both of whose expansions you’d funded in the hope of replacing the Arab Socialist governments with a bunch of oil-poor Saudi Arabias? You owe us, and Israel, big time.
[Reuters] The U.S. may have pulled the trigger on the Iran war, but it is the oil-producing Gulf that will pay the price, Gulf sources and analysts say, signalling unease in ties between a region under Iranian attack and the superpower it relies on for protection.

Behind the scenes, resentment is mounting ​in Gulf Arab capitals at being drawn into a war they neither initiated nor endorsed but are now paying for economically and militarily, with airports, hotels, ports and military and oil installations hit by Iranian strikes, said three ‌regional sources, who declined to be identified as they were not authorised to speak publicly.

"It is not our war. We did not want this conflict, yet we are paying the price in our security and our economy," Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, President of the Emirates Policy Center, told Reuters.

That doesn't mean Iran is "innocent", she said. Gulf governments had assured Tehran they would not allow their territories or airspace to be used by Washington in the war. Yet Iran has unleashed waves of drone and missile strikes across the region despite those assurances, denting business confidence in the process.
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