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Saturday, 28 May 2011

Is the Threat of Iran the 'New Terrorism' for Gulf State Leaders?

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After the assassination of Osama Bin Laden and the Arab uprising across the Middle East the West is taking a hard look at its own foreign policy in the region unsettling the status quo and their leaders.
Fmr. US Embassy Tehran © flickr/pooyan



This was no more evident when the US changed its policy and withdrawing support for Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak much to the annoyance of it main ally in the region Saudi Arabia. This policy is now unravelling further with the eminent downfall of Saleh in Yemen which is now creating a security dilemma in other Gulf states which have also adopted the same pro-American policy at the expense of personal freedoms of its own people...


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