In Qatar and Saudi Arabia’s fight, Iran’s the real winner

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Thanks to a hack allegedly carried out by Russian intelligence, relations between Qatar and Saudi Arabia are tense to say the least. The Kingdom has blockaded Qatar ports and several Gulf states have removed envoys and ambassadors. Right now, the Middle East looks a lot like Europe on the eve of World War I. This week on War College, Oklahoma University professor Joshua Landis runs us through the complicated factions making up the Middle East. According to Landis, Iran is the real winner in the latest dust up between old allies. By Matthew Gault Produced by Bethel Habte

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0:21.6	What we're seeing in the Middle East today is a new security architecture
0:26.2	being established. Iran has really in many ways won this major tug of war.
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0:37.0	You're listening to Reuters War College,
0:42.0	a discussion of the world in conflict, focusing on the stories behind the front lines. Hello, welcome to War College. I'm your host Matthew Galt. With me today is Joshua Landis, director of the
1:05.2	Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He's a frequent traveler to
1:10.1	DC and he runs the blog Syria Comet, which keeps track of the country's fractured politics.
1:15.9	Joshua, thank you so much for joining us.
1:18.2	Well, thanks for inviting me on, Matt. So I wanted to have you on today because there's been a lot of important news out of the Middle East in the past few weeks and I'm worried some of it's been buried by America's domestic squabbles.
1:30.0	And first and foremost is Qatar and I'm wondering if you'll let the audience know what exactly has happened and what's going on there because it looks like a pretty big it looks to me like a big deal.
1:42.0	It is a big deal and it throws chaos into the ranks of the US
1:46.9	coalition against ISIS and US allies in general in the Gulf region.
1:53.0	Qatar is a small island state in the Persian Gulf.
1:57.0	It has about 300,000 inhabitants, not very much,
2:01.0	but it's one of the largest gas exporters of the world, and it shares a major gas field,
2:09.2	one of the biggest in the world under the Persian Gulf that is also under Iran.
2:14.0	Saudi Arabia is upset at the amir of Qatar and Qatar's foreign policy for a number of reasons.
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