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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
As Iran and Israel reshape the region, GCC states must strengthen their own security architecture while avoiding entanglement in the emerging alliance trap.
Abdulla Banndar Al-Etaibi
Missiles may dominate headlines, but the deeper challenge for Gulf states lies in the economic and strategic disruption the conflict is imposing on their model of regional stability.
Nayef Al-Nabet
As competing narratives emerge from the U.S.–Israeli war against Iran, the real question for the Gulf lies not in who won the war but in what comes next: whether the GCC will continue to operate as six separate states or evolve into a unified strategic bloc capable of confronting an increasingly volatile regional order.
Sultan Mohammed Al-Nuaimi
As the U.S.–Israel war with Iran spreads across the Gulf, the erosion of long-standing taboos against attacking water infrastructure could place tens of millions of civilians at immediate risk.
Mohammad Abu Hawash, Nader S. Kabbani
Gulf investments in layered air and missile defenses have enabled regional states to absorb Iranian attacks, protect critical infrastructure, and maintain strategic restraint in a war they neither started nor wish to join.