The UAE in particular has had enough of the Iranian attacks. They consider it bad enough that the Mullahs, Ayatollahs, IRGC, Basij etc. were blockading the Strait of Hormuz but then they started bombing the Dubai airport and the port of Fujairah. The reason the port is important and the reason we posted twice on it closing is that it is the only one of the Emirates that is not on the Arabian Gulf, meaning ships don't have to go through the Strait to get to the port:
And from Reuters via the Times of Israel, March 17:
After initially opposing the US-Israeli war, Washington’s allies now realize that stopping too soon could allow Tehran to keep holding the region to ransom
Gulf Arab states did not ask the US to go to war with Iran, but many are now urging it not to stop short by leaving the Islamic Republic still able to threaten the Gulf’s oil lifeline and the economies that depend on it, three Gulf sources told Reuters.
At the same time, these sources and five Western and Arab diplomats said Washington was pressing Gulf states to join the US-Israeli war. According to three of them, US President Donald Trump wants to show regional backing for the campaign, to bolster its international legitimacy as well as support at home.
“There is a wide feeling across the Gulf that Iran has crossed every red line with every Gulf country,” said Abdulaziz Sager, chairman of the Saudi-based Gulf Research Center and familiar with government thinking.
“At first we defended them and opposed the war,” he said. “But once they began directing strikes at us, they became an enemy. There is no other way to classify them.”
Tehran has already demonstrated its reach, attacking airports, ports, oil facilities and commercial hubs in the six Gulf states with missiles and drones while also attacking Israel and disrupting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — the artery carrying about a fifth of global oil and underpinning Gulf economies.
The attacks have reinforced Gulf fears that leaving Iran with any significant offensive weaponry or arms manufacturing capacity could embolden it to hold the region’s energy lifeline hostage whenever tensions rise.
As the war entered its third week, with US and Israeli airstrikes intensifying and Iran firing at US bases and civilian targets across the Gulf, a Gulf source said the prevailing mood among leaders was unmistakable: that Trump should comprehensively degrade Iran’s military capacity.
The alternative, the source said, was living under constant threat. Unless Iran was severely weakened, he said, it would continue to hold the region to ransom
Predominantly Shi’ite Muslim Iran has often viewed its Sunni Arab Gulf neighbors – close allies of the US that host American military bases – with deep suspicion, even if relations with Qatar and Oman have generally been less fraught.
Over the years, Iran and its regional allies have been accused of attacks on Gulf energy installations, not least a 2019 strike on Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities – for which Iran denied responsibility – that halved Saudi output and rattled energy markets.
For Gulf leaders, inaction is now the greater risk.
The effect of Iran’s attacks this month goes far beyond specific material damage, not only disrupting oil flows but damaging a hard-won image of stability and security that has underpinned Gulf countries’ attempts to expand trade and tourism and rely less on fossil fuel exports.
“If the Americans pull out before the task is complete, we’ll be left to confront Iran on our own,” Sager said....
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Maybe not entirely on their own:
Even Hamas tells Iranian regime to stop ‘targeting neighboring countries’
