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Islamic world and accusations about alleged Iranian interference in the domestic affairs of the Gulf States are likely to continue, there are signs the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may be moderating its stance on Iran. Besides speculation that secret talks between the UAE and Iran over an unresolved islands dispute in t

Anick 5. The Diplomat EFTA00676563 Looking Ahead to Post-Obama U.S.-Iran Relations Robert Mason January 22, 2014 -- The permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) and Iran hammered out an interim nuclear deal (the so-called Joint Plan of Action) which entered into force on January 20. The

ate: a subtle indicator of global existential angst among Islamists. The event also provoked a strategic realignment in the Gulf, with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait pledging $12 billion in loans to support Egypt's transition, a role primarily occupied by Qatar during the Morsi years. Tunisia: Secula

ollowing mounting pressure from Washington as well as renewed threats from Israel regarding the use of force against Iran. It also came a day after the UN Security Council was unable to decide whether Iran's missile tests last year were a violation of UN sanctions imposed on Tehran, an impasse created by Russian and Ch

d the process. The presidential statement made at the UN Security Council immediately after the incident as well as the UN

haps the most extensive qualitative study of Arab sentiment about America in the post-9/11 era. With two colleagues, I traveled across the Arab world—the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco—for two weeks on what we called a “listening research tour,” interviewing scores of young Arabs individually, in focus g

e youngest son of the kingdom's founder. Yemen: A UN Security Council delegation visited Yemen on January 27 in a show

that King Abdullah is seeking to bolster ties with regional allies, perhaps for both political and economic reasons: the King made visits to Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait from January 29th to February Syria: Israeli warplanes are generally believed to have struck a convoy en route to Lebanon on January 30 t