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The aim is to streamline travel in the region and make it easier to explore multiple countries in one trip.

President Donald Trump announced the name change weeks before he took office

The American intervention in Iran is being touted as an outstanding success by President Donald Trump. At the very least, Trump’s decision to attack Iran facilitated a ceasefire as it created angst in Gulf states about being caught in the crossfire after Iran symbolically attacked an American air base, Al…

Iranian president says neither Qatar nor its people were targets of attack on US base in the gas-rich Gulf nation.

Life in the Gulf state has swiftly returned to normality after a night of fear and uncertainty.

When Israel assassinated a number of senior Iranian military officials and nuclear scientists on June 13, there was an initial euphoria among some ruling elites in the Gulf. They saw it as a sign of Iran’s diminishing regional threat.

On Sunday June 22, Donald Trump announced that several of Iran’s most important nuclear facilities had been “completely obliterated” and that the country’s nuclear weapons programme had been crippled. Iran denied this and vowed to retaliate. The Iranian parliament has already given approval to closing the strait of Hormuz, a…

The attacks on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities have not increased radioactivity so far.

This narrow shipping route in the Gulf region sees one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) passing through, fuelling a big part of the global economy. And Iran controls its northern side.