00:00I'm joined on the set now by France 24's Angela Diftley to talk a bit more about all of this.
00:05Angela, what do these latest attacks mean for the Gulf and their potential involvement in this war?
00:09We don't know yet. It does look, as Delano was saying there, Donald Trump saying,
00:15I didn't know about this, I didn't authorize the Israeli hit on the Iranian gas field.
00:22And then saying to the Iranians after they retaliated on Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia,
00:28if you do this again, we will hit back hugely.
00:31It does look as if Trump is trying to call for some kind of ceasefire on energy infrastructure that, you
00:39know,
00:40let's all calm down on this. It's not helping anybody.
00:4470% of Iran's gas will have been, goes through that gas field that was targeted by the Israelis.
00:52So the Iranians have some interest perhaps in de-escalating this, but we don't know.
00:56They have also seen how much of an important element in the war all of this energy infrastructure targeting can
01:07be.
01:07As for the Gulf countries and how they might react, you know, they're not even at the best of times
01:13that united.
01:14They have different constituencies, different reasons.
01:19We've talked already about the United Arab Emirates, which is the country which has been the most targeted by Iran.
01:26They have explicitly, obviously, tried to target that business hub, that commercial hub,
01:31that what might be data center hump in the future, a tourism hub, to really destabilize that.
01:39And of course, as we said before, that area has built much of its reputation around that.
01:44Interestingly, today in The Economist, the Oman foreign minister has said somebody needs to tell the United States
01:53that they have lost control of their foreign policy and suggesting that Israel has much more to gain from this
02:00than the United States
02:01and very much suggesting that this whole thing must be de-escalated urgently, talking about getting back to negotiations,
02:10talking about how this entire region, as the world becomes less dependent on fossil fuels, needs to work together
02:18and that nuclear energy will play a part in that.
02:20So, Oman on a very much not a hawkish page over this.
02:28Also, countries like Bahrain, whatever their leadership might think, many Bahraini citizens are Shiites
02:34and some of them have been seen celebrating when Iran has had a success.
02:40So, they have their own Shia population to worry about.
02:43So, even within the Gulf Cooperation Council, there are differing points of views.
02:49It's unclear which way they will step on this.
02:51Pete Hexith saying earlier that they were stepping up, but we don't know what that means.
02:55All right. Thank you for that.
02:56Angela, Angela France 24 is Angela Diffley.
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