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Saudi-UAE campaign to isolate Qatar and Iran puts Muslim nations in a bind

Saudi-UAE campaign to isolate Qatar and Iran puts Muslim nations in a bind

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Jun 05, 2017
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By James M. Dorsey

A Saudi and UAE-driven campaign to isolate Qatar and by extension Iran puts non-Muslim Arab states in a bind and tests the degree of Saudi soft power garnered in decades of massive spending on the propagation of anti-Iranian, anti-Shiite Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism.

The Saudi-UAE campaign, building on an increasingly vicious cyber a…

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