Saudi Arabia Gives Qatar 24 Hour Ultimatum; Analysts Warn Of "Military Confrontation"
Shortly after imposing a naval blockade in the immediate aftermath of the Qatar diplomatic crisis, one which left the small Gulf nation not only politically isolated and with severed ties to its neighbors but potentially locked out of maritime trade and crippling its oil and LNG exports, on Tuesday SkyNews Arabia reported that Saudi Arabia has given Qatar a 24 hours ultimatum, starting tonight, to fulfill 10 conditions that have been conveyed to Kuwait, which is currently involved in the role of a mediator between Saudi and Qatar.
Saudi Arabia gives Qatar 24 hr ultimatum to fulfill 10 conditions that have been sent to Kuwait https://t.co/OpWGvvDY7r
Reza H. Akbari (@rezahakbari) 6 juin 2017
According to media report, among the key demands by Saudi Arabia is that Qatar end all ties Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
Developing: Saudi Arabia issues ultimatum to Qatar demanding it end all ties Muslim Brotherhood & Hamas pic.twitter.com/mIgWLsXfKg
Dipatch2016 (@Daily_News_Wire) 6 juin 2017
While there was little additional information on the Ultimatum and more importantly what happens should Qatar not comply, Al Jazeera reported that Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, left Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after holding mediation talks with the Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz to try to defuse an escalating crisis between Arab countries and Qatar. No details were given on the talks.
In addition to Saudi Arabia's aggressive approach, Egypt's Foreign Ministry accused Qatar of taking an "antagonist approach" towards Cairo and said "all attempts to stop it from supporting terrorist groups failed". Qatar denied the allegations, with a Foreign Ministry statement describing them as "baseless" on Monday.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, analyst Giorgio Cafiero of Gulf State Analytics, a geopolitical risk consultancy based in Washington, DC, told Al Jazeera: "I think the Kuwaitis as well as Omanis ... fear the prospects of these tensions escalating in ways which could undermine the interest of all six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
"There are many analysts who believe that a potential break-up of the GCC has to be considered right now."
"If these countries fail to resolve their issues and such tensions reaches new heights, we have to be very open to the possibility of these six Arab countries no longer being able to unite under the banner of one council," said Cafiero.
He added that if tension escalates, some have warned of a "military confrontation".
Saudi Arabia looks like a grand-strategy game player. They are the new Saddam regime of the Middle east.
And don't forget that they have been funding Syrian rebels from the start. Maybe they just want to eliminate the competition?
It´s much more complex than this. Qatar has been supporting Syrian rebels as well. I think it´s more like Qatar has more independant foreign policy and lately they started to warm up their relations with Iran and Russia and the saudis don´t like that but of course we can only speculate on this until we have more information.
More and more conflicts happening lately
Guess who funds them all.
I am guessing the petro dollar is involved
"When all else fails, they take you to (world) war." - Gerald Celente
Qatar is a country that finance terrorism
who finance terrorism sooner or later gets hurt
..it is like playing with shit - later you smell of shit
in this case here Qatar Paid Al-Qaeda, Iran $1BN In Hostage Deal because the hostages were from or related to the royal family
here is the story link
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-05/shocking-trigger-behind-todays-gulf-scandal-qatar-paid-al-qaeda-iran-1bn-hostage-dea
Now ..guess how Al-fucken Qaeda will spend this 1,000,000,000$ ....I don't even want to think about this
i hate to upvote this, but i have to. "no one loves the messenger who brings bad news" - Sophocles
I upvote things that should be read or is considerably worthy content. Not for just being "likable". I appreciate you messenger!
you're right, i do the same. only this message concerned me very much...
😕 another conflict getting heated up... Dang...
my thought also, sigh.
The whole world is going mad!
But Steemit is a way to return the World to reason :)
"'Some' have warned..."
I wonder who that "some" is?
It's the old Sunni vs Shiite battle still taking place people! Let's blame the west!!! Ok it's
not exactly that simple.
This should raise the price of oil.
When the US goes to war, do Hollywood movies get more expensive? How about "machinery including computers"? Or vehicles and aircraft? http://www.worldstopexports.com/united-states-top-10-exports/ Just wondering.
When is the US not at war?
When is irony not trolled?
We will see how it unfolds.