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		<title>The Gulf Union that Never Was</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 14:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article appeared on RUSI.org on 17 May 2012. ___ The leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council met on 14 May in Riyadh to discuss the formation of a new Gulf Union. This Union was to entail even closer relations between the states. In particular there were high expectations that Saudi Arabia and Bahrain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6076&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Disunion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 07:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article appeared in Foreign Policy magazine online on the 2nd May 2012. &#8230; The leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait) will meet in May to discuss creating a closer federal unit among the states. The idea of closer integration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6061&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>British Embassy in Bahrain attacked?</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/12/05/british-embassy-in-bahrain-attacked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A small bomb went off near the British Embassy in Bahrain&#8217;s capital Manama. The relatively small device went off underneath a bus parked 50 meters away from the Embassy. Some points to note: This incident comes at a time of tension between the UK and Iran (re: embassy bootings out) and during the Shia festival [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5884&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ article on Iran and Bahrain</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/10/06/wsj-article-on-iran-and-bahrain/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/10/06/wsj-article-on-iran-and-bahrain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written on numerous occasions about Iran and Bahrain (here here and here). I am neither Bahraini nor Iranian. Nor do I have a gripe with either side. Nor am I a dyed in the wool conservative or a pinko liberal. I try to come at the issue of the Shia in Bahrain, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5831&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Iran and the GCC</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/08/22/on-iran-and-the-gcc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian have published an article of mine on the GCC fixation with Iran. Despite a bit of butchery with the editing robbing my opening sentence of its mojo, it is still, I feel, worth a read!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5675&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran builds pearl roundabout monument on disputed island</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/06/05/iran-builds-pearl-roundabout-monument-on-disputed-island/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/06/05/iran-builds-pearl-roundabout-monument-on-disputed-island/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe that I missed this when the story first broke. Evidently the Iranians have a super sense of high mirth and constructed a fake &#8216;pearl roundabout&#8217; as a monument to the epicenter of the Bahraini protests, which was subsequently destroyed in Manama. Moreover, not only did they ironically immortalize the roundabout, but they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5480&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The GCC, Yemen &amp; Bahrain: Inside Story</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/05/08/the-gcc-yemen-bahrain-inside-story/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/05/08/the-gcc-yemen-bahrain-inside-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 20:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of my thoughts on the GCC in Yemen and in Bahrain. Obviously, hindsight is 20:20, but I now realise that I ought to have confronted the Saudi fellow more robustly. Live and learn. Oh, and I need to E N U N C I A T E  some more. And I&#8217;m fairly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5357&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain tries Iranians for spying</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/04/13/bahrain-tries-iranians-for-spying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two (or possibly three) Iranians are facing charges in Bahrain for spying for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC). They were allegedly meeting with various nefarious people: with the intention of undermining Bahrain&#8217;s military, political and economic status and harming the nation&#8217;s interests. This action comes soon after Kuwait tried and convicted members of an Iranian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5310&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Problems on the horizon for the Gulf States</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/04/10/problems-on-the-horizon-for-the-gulf-states/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/04/10/problems-on-the-horizon-for-the-gulf-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in an era when the German Mark was trading at over four trillion to the Dollar and the League of Nations still sought to regulate international alliances, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Abdullah, who has lived through the inauguration of fifteen US Presidents, is truly a man of a different age. Given what one might &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5286&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Iranian response to KSA &amp; UAE intervention in Bahrain</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/03/17/the-iranian-response-to-ksa-uae-intervention-in-bahrain/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/03/17/the-iranian-response-to-ksa-uae-intervention-in-bahrain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran to respond to regional invaders &#8230;was the title of an article on Iran’s Press TV. The first line of the article is a quote from Hossein Naqavi, a member of Iran’s Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy: The Saudi&#8217;s should know for a fact that Tehran will use all the power and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5240&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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