Four-time Olympic gold medalist Sir Mo Farah is pressing ahead with his move to Qatar, despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The 43-year-old has confirmed the move in paperwork filed through his running business, which holds £3.9million in assets, including £1.9million in investment property, The Sun reports.
Sir Mo, who is considered to be one of the greatest runners of all time, and his wife Tania, have also changed their residency status in another firm, One Mo Mile Limited.
Qatar has long attracted celebrities, investors and entrepreneurs with its tax-free lifestyle, luxury real estate and low crime.
But as the US-Israel war with Iran rages, more than 100,000 UK nationals are fleeing the Middle East and returning to the UK.
It comes as US President Donald Trump has said he is considering seizing Iran’s Kharg Island, in the latest development of the month-long conflict.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Trump said the US could “easily” take the island, which is the centre of Iran’s export system, adding a peace deal could be reached “fairly quickly”.
“Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options,” Trump told the FT. “It would also mean we had to be there [in Kharg Island] for a while.”
Kharg Island is of great importance to Iran, responsible for up to 90% of the country’s oil exports, including crude oil, fertilisers and liquefied gas, providing a major source of revenue for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iran has threatened to expand retaliatory strikes on the houses of US and Israeli “commanders and political officials in the region”.
When asked about Iranian defence on the island he said: "I don’t think they have any defence. We could take it very easily."
At the same time, the president is weighing up whether to send an extra 10,000 troops to the region to expand Washington’s options.
Despite the build-up, the Trump administration insists the war is nearing its conclusion while still pursuing talks with Tehran.
On Friday, Trump declared: “It's sort of finished, but it's not finished. It's got to be finished.”
It comes as oil prices rose to a record monthly levels in the aftermath of Yemen’s Houthi’s joining the war and launching attacks on Israel.
Fears are now growing that the economic fallout of the war could deepen if the Houthis open a new front in the war by blocking the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
The Bab al-Mandeb Strait — known as the “Gate of Tears” — links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and controls access to the Suez Canal.
If both it and the Strait of Hormuz are disrupted, the consequences could ripple worldwide.
