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Iranian attacks killed American service members in Jordan, U.S. strikes cut transport links around Bandar Abbas, and Tehran widened its retaliation to Kuwait while threatening major ports and airports in Emirates.
Pakistan and Kuwait are holding preliminary negotiations over a major expansion of their defense relationship that could include troops, fighter aircraft, drones and air-defense systems.
Saudi jets hit militia-linked targets near the Saudi-Iraqi border during Iran war, and separate strikes were launched from Kuwait.
Kuwait’s Interior Ministry said four people affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were arrested after allegedly attempting to enter Kuwaiti territory by sea near Bubiyan Island.
Gulf states face a persistent demographic contradiction: they possess immense wealth, advanced infrastructure, and ambitious foreign policies, but relatively small citizen populations.
The experiments unfolding in the Emirates and Kuwait are not merely regional phenomena. They are signals of a world in which the attributes and burdens of population are no longer taken as given.
As Iranian missile and drone attacks strained Gulf defenses, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait reportedly turned to Morocco and Egypt to support their air defenses.
What began as a campaign to “clean” nationality files has grown into one of the most sweeping citizenship revocation drives in the Gulf, touching tens of thousands of people, falling heavily on women naturalized through marriage, and culminating in a new legal framework that further concentrates power over nationality in the executive.