Aya Batraoui
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1,416 appearances
165 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Sep
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Although Qatar was hit hard by Iran during the war and hosted the largest number of US troops in the region, it's calling for a return to negotiations, not further escalation.
Meanwhile, the foreign minister of Oman visited Iran this week.
The two countries which border the Strait of Hermuz say they're discussing a plan that could temporarily reopen the waterway to ships.
Aya Botrawi NPR News, Dubai.
The UAE was among Iran's top international trade partners and where illicit funds moved through Iranian shell companies, many of which have been sanctioned in the past by the US Treasury Department.
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But reactions from other Gulf allies have been muted so far.
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Some only had dismal trade ties with Iran to begin with.
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And while the Trump administration now says welcoming flights from Iran help it to operate in the gray zone, direct flights from Tehran continue to land in Dubai as well as other destinations like Turkey, Russia, and China, which says it has no plans to cut off Iran and slammed the new raft of US sanctions.
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Iran, meanwhile, says it's ready with a two year plan to manage the fallout from these latest measures.
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Ayy Beltrawi NPR News, Dubai.
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They've been meeting with the Iranians for weeks about the shared management of the strait which they both border.
And that includes, you know, discussion around fees maybe being collected from ships, which would be a new s you know, d uh thing for this waterway where, you know, before the war twenty percent of the world's oil was freely flowing.
And I think that's why Trump, for a second time in this war just this week, threatened Oman.
Oman has been allowing ships though to use their waterway to transit the strait
The UAE's defense ministry says the missiles fell in open water.
That suggests Iran may be sending warning shots as the war, now in its sixth month, shows no sign of ending.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard and top Iranian officials are insisting on specific concessions from the US, like unblocking billions in frozen dollars, before they say they'll reopen the Strait of Hermuz.
President Trump, meanwhile, posted a map of the region where the
with a circle on the vital waterway, calling it quote New US territory.
The waterway was free for ships to transit before the war.
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