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Gulf states’ Iran battle scars push them closer to Trump — and Israel

It’s not just Israel. 

One of the least convincing arguments of opponents of the Iran war is that it is a conflict initiated by the Jewish state for its own benefit — and the United States is just along for the ride.

This view not only discounts the US interest in defanging Iran, but neglects the fact that there are other countries in the region besides Israel and Iran, and that they too have a stake in the outcome of this war. 

If there’s anything that Iran has succeeded in doing over the first month of battle, it is further demonstrating the intolerable threat that it represents to the region. 

The so-called Gulf Cooperation Council states — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates — have the misfortune of being located just across the Persian Gulf from Iran, putting them on the front line of the war. 

A key element of Iran’s strategy has been to impose economic pain on these states to force them to press the United States to stay its hand. 

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