Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

I'm Samir Hashmi in Dubai in the UAE.

Today, how have businesses in the Gulf responded to the Israel-Iran conflict?

Yes, we did have calls from the customers for alternative solutions.

What is the other ports that we can move into?

We were bracing for all this

situation and we knew what we need to do. Dubai is a major global trading hub and home to the biggest

port in the Middle East. It's also close to the Strait of Hermus, the world's busiest oil shipping

channel. And there were concerns earlier this week that the Strait might be closed by Iran.

It may not be in Iran's interest to do that, but certainly it will be in Iran's interest

to remind people that they can retaliate, they can't exert pressure on these countries.

Given the ongoing volatility in the region, its reliance on the oil trade, we'll be hearing

how some countries are looking for alternatives.

Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have built pipelines over the years to try to bypass the straight-of-formos,

but other countries don't have such great backup options.

And what could this mean for the future relationship between Gulf states like this one and Iran?

That's all coming up in today's Business Daily.

A bomb strikes Tehran.

For nearly two weeks, Iran and Israel were locked in their most intense conflict in decades.

After the United States launched strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, Iran retaliated,

firing missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar.

In Doha, residents were urged to take shelter.

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