Iran war will reshape alliances in Gulf for years to come

The US-Israeli war on Iran will have “a lasting impact not only economically, but also politically” on the Gulf countries, according to Zeidon Alkinani, the director of the Arab Perspectives Institute. Alkinani told Al Jazeera that Gulf Cooperation Council countries “were enjoying improving relations with Iran, despite some of them having their share of disagreements with the Islamic republic in Iran for many years”. “A lot of these progresses could be reversed, given that Iran viewed a lot of these regional neighbours as a part of the overarching pretext of the US influence or the US interests in this war,” he added.