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TEHRAN, IRAN — Earlier this week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani repeated an earlier threat to block ships from leaving the Persian Gulf if the U.S. government continues to seek to block Iranian oil exports.
PERSIAN GULF — Long-seething tensions in the Middle East are coming to a boil once again as tit-for-tat verbal salvos between the U.S. and Iran have moved beyond tweets and declarations alone and are now shifting toward the realm of concrete actions and demonstrations of military force.
It looks like the British Empire is making a comeback.
Almost 47 years after the small island in the Persian Gulf gained independence from Britain, the UK armed forces are returning to Bahrain.
Starting in 2019, at least one of the Royal Navy’s Type-23 frigates will be based out of the new £40 million ($53.5 million) National Support Facility at Mina Salman, establishing what UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson called an “enduring presence.”
The Cold War in The Desert, the protracted diplomatic and economic severing of times between Qatar and the quartet of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bargain and Egypt, appears to have become more entrenched after an attempt at dialogue that seems to have gone wrong.
READ MORE: Cold War in The Desert–How the Qatar crisis is becoming a stalemate
KUWAIT CITY (Sputnik) – Russia does not want to compete with other states in order to take the lead helping to negotiate the settlement of the diplomatic row surrounding Qatar, and fully supports Kuwait’s efforts to solve the dispute, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday.
Qatar has announced that it is sending an Ambassador to Tehran for the first time since 2016 when under Saudi pressure Doha recalled its envoy to the Islamic Republic.
In brief statement from Doha reads,
“The State of Qatar announced today that its ambassador to Tehran will return to exercise its diplomatic duties”.
Qatar further stated that the state seeks to,
“strengthen bilateral relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran in all fields”.
Tensions between Iran and the United States continue to boil over after the US levelled further sanctions on Iran after the Islamic Republic successfully launched a satellite into space.
