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...State and Treasury Department officials have said that some of these front companies and bank accounts are thought to be centered in the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states. The U.S. has repeatedly sought help from these countries in shutting down Iranian fronts and financial networks, but with mixed results, at best. The IISS study asserts that the UAE is a "common destination for illicit items and eventually the hub of the Khan network." It adds that Iran is one of the top recipients of non-oil exports from the Emirates, and predicts that "the UAE's relatively...
...gulf between narratives is wide, and only getting wider,” she said. Jordan has expressed its support for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, as well as for achieving peace in the Middle East. The queen also addressed the evolving role of women in the Arab world in response to a question posed by Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75. “The Arab world has done very well in spending a lot, investing a lot in getting women into schools and universities,” the queen said...
...more inclined to pursue their own objectives than follow Washington's script, since each has bitter memories of being abandoned by the U.S. during their abortive uprisings against Saddam in 1991.) A U.S. withdrawal, after all, would mean abandoning many of its own objectives, fatally weakening the moderate Arab regimes it has vowed to protect, abandoning some of the world's largest oil reserves to be fought over by jihadists, Baathists and proxies of Iran, while Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds slug it out on the under-card of what could quickly become a regional war. Right...
...leadership during last summer's war against Hizballah, which cost the lives of more than 150 Israelis. Even Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah - presumably in a bunker somewhere in Beirut - expressed his admiration for the Israeli government. "They study their defeat in order to learn from it," he said, unlike Arab regimes that "do not probe, do not ask, do not form inquiry commissions...
...Some Arab leaders fear that national reconciliation efforts may be too little, too late. Hisham Youssef, a senior Arab League official, complains that Arab efforts to push reconciliation talks at a 2004 Iraq conference in Sharm el-Sheikh were largely ignored, and now the spread of sectarian killings has made peace between Sunnis and Shi'ites more difficult. "There are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of people who are now looking for revenge," he says...