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Israel’s strike on shared Iran–Qatar gas infrastructure marks a significant escalation in the conflict, with implications for regional stability, global energy markets, and the Gulf’s environmental security.

Mohammed Al-Hashemi

How GCC unity and global partnerships produced an historic UN resolution condemning Iran’s attacks and defending regional security. 

CJ (Caleb) Pine

The evolving U.S.–Iran confrontation is reshaping the Gulf’s security environment, as a shift toward gradual escalation and hybrid warfare places Gulf states at the center of a crisis threatening energy security, maritime stability, and regional deterrence structures.

Jassim Mohammed Al-Kuwari

Israel’s expanding war in Lebanon is unfolding alongside a domestic crisis over who controls the country’s decisions of war and peace. As Hezbollah confronts Israel on the battlefield, the Lebanese state is challenging the legitimacy of the group’s military activities—opening an unprecedented struggle over the state’s monopoly on arms.

Souhayb Jawhar

Iran has entered renewed negotiations with Washington convinced that only the perception that it is ready to fight—not to make concessions—can produce a durable diplomatic outcome.

Hassan Ahmadian

In the delicate space between war and dialogue, the role of GCC member states is best understood as one of containment.

Khalid Al-Jaber