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Alanoud Hamad Saud Al Thani
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Nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs
Iran’s strikes on Gulf states risk drawing the region into a wider war that could reshape the Middle East’s strategic balance. For Gulf governments, the most consequential decision may not be how to retaliate, but whether to enter the conflict at all.