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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&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5884&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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		<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&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5831&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5675&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5480&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;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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		<category><![CDATA[Al Jazeera inside story]]></category>
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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&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5357&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;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>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/04/13/bahrain-tries-iranians-for-spying/#comments</comments>
		<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&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5310&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5286&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thegulfblog.com/?p=5240</guid>
		<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&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5240&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The endgame in Bahrain: Saudi and UAE troops enter Manama</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/03/15/the-endgame-in-bahrain-saudi-and-uae-troops-enter-manama/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/03/15/the-endgame-in-bahrain-saudi-and-uae-troops-enter-manama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With escalating tensions and increasingly violent rioting on the streets of Bahrain’s capital, Manama, Saudi Arabia sent in troops to ‘stabilise’ the Bahraini Government. The UAE too has responded to the request from the Bahraini government to “contribute to the establishment of internal security and stability” and has sent at least 500 police. Thus far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5232&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain&#8230;what else?</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/02/21/bahrain-what-else/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/02/21/bahrain-what-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just about everybody expected protests in Bahrain. Most expected serious problems for the Government. Some expected some stiff repression. Few thought that the governmental pay off (over $2500 per family) would sate protesters.  No-one expected governmental forces to open fire on sleeping protesters in the middle of the night. The Bahrain situation is far trickier, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5158&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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