Barbara Pletusha

They're all wondering how long it will continue.

And their big concern is how much of an impact it will continue to have as it continues.

Certainly, as Frank was saying, it has affected the economy in the tourism, the oil and so on, as we've been reporting.

But then also, once it ends, what will they be left with?

The Americans are looking for a victory that they can then say, we've done it and we can go.

But the Gulf Arab states, including Qatar, are going to be left with whatever the result is, with an Iran that has been quite radically bombarded, but the regime is still in place, possibly in a more hard line and radical form.

So there's a lot of concerns here.

I would say that in Qatar, life is a bit surreal because you don't have that many attacks and they're usually intercepted.

That's on the surface.

Underneath, there's a great deal of anxiety about what's going on.