{"id":330092,"date":"2026-08-17T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330092"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:11:17","slug":"gulf-allies-start-choking-on-trumps-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330092","title":{"rendered":"Gulf allies start choking on Trump\u2019s Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Pravda \u2013 Aug 16, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Frustration with the US is growing across the Persian Gulf, where Arab leaders increasingly doubt that Demented Don can manage the diplomacy needed to end the war he started with Iran, The Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain are reportedly united in their aggravation with the Trump administration, with some officials even debating the value of continuing to host large US military bases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cTrump started this war,\u201d one Gulf official said, \u201cand we are paying the price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of Iran\u2019s core demands of the US is exactly this: leave the region. And Iran has shown how much risk US installations bring to the countries hosting them.<\/p>\n<p>Trump now waddles between threats, fake breakthroughs and another Truth Social meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>One analyst said Gulf allies feel they were \u201cunnecessarily entangled\u201d in a war Trump is now struggling to resolve, while his Iran policy is being described in the region as <strong>\u201cerratic\u201d <\/strong>and <strong>\u201cunpredictable.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWhatever we do,\u201d one Gulf official admitted, \u201cwe cannot say no to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is not an alliance. That is a leash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news-pravda.com\/usa\/2026\/08\/16\/2518356.html\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has proved unable to protect the Gulf nations, and their alliance with the U.S. is now proving more of a liability than an asset  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":330094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330093,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330092\/revisions\/330093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/330094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}