{"id":244334,"date":"2026-03-17T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=244334"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:17:21","slug":"gulf-states-demand-us-not-stop-war-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/244334\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf states demand US not stop war against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gulf Arab states did not ask the US to go to war with Iran, but many are now urging it not to stop short by leaving the Islamic ​Republic, Reuters<\/a> writes, citing sources.<\/p>\n

“There is a wide feeling across the Gulf that Iran has crossed every red line with every Gulf country,” said Abdulaziz Sager, chairman of the Saudi-based Gulf Research Center and familiar with government thinking.<\/p>\n

“At first we defended them and opposed the war, but once they began directing strikes at us, they became an enemy. There is no other way to classify them.”<\/p>\n

At the same time, five Western and Arab diplomats said Washington ‌ was pressing Gulf states to join the US-Israeli war. According to three of them, President Donald Trump wants to show regional backing for the campaign, to bolster its international legitimacy as well as support at home.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gulf Arab states did not ask the US to go to war with Iran, but many are now urging it not to stop short by leaving the Islamic ​Republic, Reuters writes, citing sources. “There is a wide feeling across the Gulf that Iran has crossed every red line with every Gulf country,” said Abdulaziz Sager, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":244328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,96,98,101,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en","category-economy","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244336,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244334\/revisions\/244336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}