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Backgrounder. The Middle East is shifting.The really amazing part is how easy it would have been for staunch adversaries like the UAE and Iran to embrace each other but for the Western interference in the intra-Gulf affairs. Kushner might not have been aware that the UAE and Iran have deep historical ties up until Imperial Britain intervened to severe them and occupy the Emirati islands. 2021 marks the one hundredth “anniversary” of Britain’s dastardly colonial act....Read "Western interference" as the attempt to extend the British (and French Empires) through the American Empire.India PunchlineAs UAE embraces Iran, fizz goes pop for Abraham AccordsM. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service
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Backgrounder. The Middle East is shifting.Backgrounder. The Middle East is shifting.The really amazing part is how easy it would have been for staunch adversaries like the UAE and Iran to embrace each other but for the Western interference in the intra-Gulf affairs. Kushner might not have been aware that the UAE and Iran have deep historical ties up until Imperial Britain intervened to severe them and occupy the Emirati islands. 2021 marks the one hundredth “anniversary” of Britain’s dastardly colonial act....Read "Western interference" as the attempt to extend the British (and French Empires) through the American Empire.India PunchlineAs UAE embraces Iran, fizz goes pop for Abraham AccordsM. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service
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The really amazing part is how easy it would have been for staunch adversaries like the UAE and Iran to embrace each other but for the Western interference in the intra-Gulf affairs. Kushner might not have been aware that the UAE and Iran have deep historical ties up until Imperial Britain intervened to severe them and occupy the Emirati islands. 2021 marks the one hundredth “anniversary” of Britain’s dastardly colonial act....Read "Western interference" as the attempt to extend the British (and French Empires) through the American Empire.
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As UAE embraces Iran, fizz goes pop for Abraham Accords
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service