{"id":2188,"date":"2017-06-06T19:41:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T19:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2017-06-06T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T19:41:32","slug":"the-persian-gulf-crisis-over-qatar-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/06\/the-persian-gulf-crisis-over-qatar-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PERSIAN GULF CRISIS OVER QATAR, EXPLAINED"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : The Washington Post<\/p>\n

By Ishaan Tharoor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are in the grip of an unprecedented regional crisis.<\/strong> In Monday’s early hours, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt released coordinated statements, announcing a diplomatic break<\/a>\u00a0with the tiny-yet-wealthy peninsular nation of Qatar. They cut air, sea and land links and ordered Qatari officials\u00a0and nationals\u00a0stationed in their countries to return home.<\/p>\n

Qatar, with just over\u00a0300,000 citizens, has played an outsize role on the world stage\u00a0because of its great wealth of oil and natural gas.\u00a0Global oil prices\u00a0wobbled<\/a>\u00a0Monday as both sides dug in their heels<\/a>. Already, as my colleagues reported<\/a>, panic over a Saudi blockade of Qatar’s only land border prompted spooked residents to clean out supermarket shelves in Doha.<\/p>\n

The move is a reflection of long-running frustrations<\/a>\u00a0with the Qataris, who the Saudis and Emiratis\u00a0claim are supporting terrorist groups as well as being far too cordial with Iran, their regional archrival. A\u00a0complicated and uncertain state of affairs is playing out, with far-reaching stakes \u2014 Qatar, after all, is home to a crucial forward base for the U.S. Central Command. Here’s our attempt at a quick primer on\u00a0what you need to know.<\/p>\n

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Sourced : The Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are in the grip of an unprecedented regional crisis. In Monday’s early hours, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt released coordinated statements, announcing a diplomatic break\u00a0with the tiny-yet-wealthy peninsular nation of Qatar. They cut air, sea and… Continue reading THE PERSIAN GULF CRISIS OVER QATAR, EXPLAINED<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1544,475,1543,718],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-doha","tag-qatar","tag-u-s-central-command","tag-united-arab-emirates","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}