{"id":340940,"date":"2026-03-15T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/340940\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:05:16","slug":"gulf-states-hesitant-to-strike-iran-despite-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/340940\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf states hesitant to strike Iran despite attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks into the war, and despite more than 2,000 missiles and drones launched by Iran toward Gulf states, a retaliatory strike against Iran<\/a> still does not appear to be on the horizon.<\/p>\n

According to sources from Gulf states<\/a> who spoke with The Jerusalem Post, one of the reasons they have not launched an attack is their concern about \u201cthe day after.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many unanswered questions about how the war will end,\u201d a Gulf official told the Post. \u201cIt\u2019s possible that in the end, the regime will not fall, that [US President Donald] Trump will decide the event is over, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-based regime will remain in place. In that case, Gulf states would have to continue dealing with Tehran and maintain some form of relationship with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another reason Gulf states are reluctant to attack Iran is the fear of a significant escalation in Iranian strikes<\/a>, including an expansion of the list of targets that might be hit with missiles and drones.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not as if Iran isn\u2019t already firing<\/a> or hitting civilian targets,\u201d another Gulf source said. \u201cBut it could be much worse. We know Iran still has capabilities it has not yet used, and that concern is always there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although all six Gulf countries have been attacked, looking at their positions reveals no clear consensus on how to respond to Iran.<\/p>\n

Oman, for example, condemned the joint Israeli-American strike against Iran and also condemned attacks against countries in the region \u2013 without specifying who carried them out.<\/p>\n

At the other end of the spectrum is the United Arab Emirates. UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed said Iran is an enemy, and Anwar Gargash, one of his senior advisers, wrote on X\/Twitter that the Iranian assault was a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n

The difficulty in reaching a consensus is another reason why a strike is unlikely in the near future, according to officials from Gulf states.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many opinions and so many different approaches to managing relations at this moment, and none of the countries wants to act alone,\u201d one official told the Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks into the war, and despite more than 2,000 missiles and drones launched by Iran toward Gulf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[83420,42,43,157282,157283,78,40,38,41,39,79],"class_list":["post-340940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-gulf-states","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}