United Arab Emirates and Qatar restore diplomatic relations after six years of clash
After six years of rupture, the UAE and Qatar have reached an agreement to restore diplomatic ties. The dispute arose and relations broke down when the UAE accused Qatar of sponsoring terrorism.
“ The Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs welcomed the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries and expressed the aspiration of the State of Qatar to promote a partnership with the UAE that reflects the depth of brotherly relations between the two brotherly peoples,” the Qatari Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
This is shaping up to be a mending period in the Gulf region.
In March, Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to restore diplomatic ties in a China-brokered deal, ending a seven-year rift. Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran reached a fever pitch in 2019, after a claimed assault by Iran-backed Yemeni fighters on the Saudi Abqaiq plant temporarily knocked out half of the production capacity. Last year, Saudi Arabia sounded the alarm of an imminent Iranian attack, prompting a prompt US response.
The Saudi Arabia-Iran deal is the latest in a series of geopolitical realignments that have occurred lately in the Middle East. For more than a year, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have been quietly negotiating the normalization of relations, badly damaged after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018; Qatar has healed a five-year rift with its Persian Gulf neighbors, while Israel is deepening its Arab ties at a time when its conflict with the Palestinians heats up.
Meanwhile, Tehran has pardoned more than 22,000 people arrested during protests that rocked the country following the death of Mahsa Amini. Riots erupted in several Kurdish cities after the 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish died on Sept. 16, just three days after she was arrested by Iran's "morality police" for allegedly violating the country's strict women's dress code. This marks a softening in Tehran's position precisely with a view to improving its international relations.
But most alarmingly for oil markets, oil prices tumbled last week after news emerged that the United States and Iran are making progress after resuming talks on a nuclear deal, a move that could easing sanctions on Iran's oil exports. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the talks are progressing faster than expected, with the possibility of reaching an agreement within a few weeks. The terms of the deal are likely to require Iran to cease enriching uranium at 60% and above, in exchange for being allowed to export up to 1 million bbl a day of oil.
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