Why is Iran Striking the Arab Gulf Countries?

Here is an excerpt from Why is Iran Striking the Arab Gulf Countries?, our latest piece in The Call. It discusses why Iran is targeting Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia instead of focusing fire on Israel. The article examines decades of Gulf neoliberalism, US basing strategy, and hard lessons learned from last June.

"Neoliberalism in the Arab region was only possible due to the inflows of Gulf capital and the proliferation of defeat of every sovereign state project. Today, Iranian strikes on GCC countries and US bases assumes a dual nature: one prong is aimed at depleting the US military infrastructure in the region, and therefore the US capacity to wage war on Iran, the other works to create political and economic pressure necessary to stop the war as it threatens an entire socio-economic paradigm built by the US and Israel since the collapse of the USSR."

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