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[NuWire Investor: Latest News] Persian Gulf Real Estate Slumps: ‘Specifically, Saudi Arabia’s possible implementation of a mortgage law to introduce mortgage products and legislation could also serve as a catalyst to kick start demand in the domestic residential property market, which has so far fared relatively well, because of severe undersupply,’ Trask said.

[Al Bisharah TV] Arabic Book:The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity: Volume I: From Prehistory ...: Volume I covers the Pleistocene to the Achaemenian period, including almost all the published evidence for the prehistory and history of the Arabian Gulf. Volume II covers the period from Alexander the Great to the coming of Islam, including full discussion of the history of Christianity in the area.

[Babylon & Beyond] ARABIAN PENINSULA: Majority of Persian Gulf Arabs too afraid to ...: The online study, conducted by YouGov in June in which over 1,000 respondents were polled in 17 different Arab states, said an increasing number of gulf Arabs view the so-called Arab Spring with pessimism and fear. 

[niacINsight - The Blog of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC)] Arab FM Blasts Iran's “Occupation” of Gulf Islands - NIAC inSight ...: However, comparing the dispute over the Gulf islands to the Israeli occupation isn’t going to help anyone.  Instead, it will only cause the two parties to dig their heels in further, as their pride and egos get in the way of any real settlement.  But all of this only postpones the inevitable: some day, Iran and the UAE are going to have to act like adults and find a peaceful way to settle this argument.

[Friedman on Geopolitics] The U.S.-Saudi Dilemma: Iran's Reshaping of Persian Gulf Politics ...: The Iranian defense minister broached this very idea during his speech last week when he said, “The United States has failed to establish a sustainable security system in the Persian Gulf region, and it is not possible that many vessels will maintain a permanent presence in the region.” Vahidi was seeking to convey to fellow Iranians and trying to convince the Sunni Arab powers that a U.S. security guarantee in the region does not hold as much weight as it used to, and that with Iran now filling the void, the United States may well face a much more difficult time trying to maintain its existing military installations.

[MaritimeSun] The Naval Balance of Power: The Persian Gulf | MaritimeSun: So far this capability is limited to constructing patrol boats and mini submarines, but the capabilities seem to be evolving towards the construction of larger ships through the construction of small frigates based on the Alvand class. Iran has also developed its capability to construct submarines since up to now Iran has concentrated on the construction of small Ghadir class mini submarines, but currently intends to build larger submarines with a displacement of 1000 tons.

[Simmering Hope] iran reshaping the persian gulf politics | Simmering Hope: Iran’s reshaping of Persian Gulf politics entails convincing its Sunni neighbors that resisting Iran is not worth the cost, especially when the United States does not seem to have the time or the resources to come to their aid at present. No matter how much money the Saudis throw at Western defense contractors, any military threat by the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council states against Iran will be hollow without an active U.S. military commitment.

[Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Pakistan extends influence in gulf states: Pakistan has also rushed to the defense of Saudi Arabia in the current political upheaval roiling the Arab world, underlining how the embattled Asian state, the only Muslim nuclear power, is becoming increasingly influential in the Middle East.

[Israel's News & Views Blog] Will NATO Get Syrias About Assad ... - Israel's News & Views Blog: Earlier in August, Kuwait massed troops on Boubiyan Island opposite from Iraq to defend the $1.1b Grand Mubarak Port that is under construction there - an odd reaction to Iraq’s demand that Kuwait freeze construction of the Persian Gulf port until guarantees are provided the new facility will not be a hindrance to the operations of Iraq’s own planned harbor in the southern region of Basra. A government spokesman in Baghdad demanded reassurance that safe and free navigation will not be affected by the Kuwait port scheduled for completion in 2016.

[rss] The Persian Gulf & an intro to SEO | Iranian.com: Search engines have given this SPAM site called PersianOrArabianGulf dot com a high rank. This site lacks any useful information and is under control by a non-Iranian webmaster whose only intention is to make money.

[StateBrief Blog] Assessing Qaddafi: Qaddafi took power at the age of 27 in the waning days of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the immensely influential pan-Arab leader of Egypt, and saw himself as Nasser’s acolyte but with a greater ambitions: whereas Nasser dreamed of a single Arab nation stretching from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf as an end in itself, Qaddafi saw Arab unity as the first step to Muslim unity. Although Qaddafi failed to achieve any sort of unity, and his “Third International Theory”

[Furniture Commercial] Totally Hip Community | Blog | Merchant Ships as Missile Platforms: globalsecurity.org references construction of thousand-ton 289-foot missile-equipped destroyers, locally built craft with “rocket launchers”, and probable launching by now of the 350-Ton missile launcher frigate Sina.[5] These Iranian assets present a clear and present danger to merchant and war ships transiting the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the Red Sea.

[LEFT HOOK by Dean Henderson] The International: Oil, Drugs, Guns & Kissinger Associates « LEFT ...: Morgan Guaranty was investment adviser to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, central bank of the UAE, where monarch and primary BCCI shareholder Sheik Zayed held the purse strings.  Morgan Grenfell, the London arm of the House of Morgan, advised the GCC government of Qatar and UAE gold market emirate Dubai.  Grenfell- now part of Deutsche Bank- owned a large share of Jordan’s central bank and financed weapons sales to Oman, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.  When Saudi Lockheed arms dealer Adnan Khasshoggi bought Arizona-Colorado Land & Cattle Company in 1974, US investment arm Morgan Stanley swung the deal.  When Khasshoggi bought a 17,000 acre dairy farm and a million acre cattle ranch in Sudan, Morgan Stanley helped again.

[Sf-Fandom's History Blog] Closing in on the Archaeological Garden of Eden « Sf-Fandom's ...: Archaeologists and amateurs alike point to the flooding of the Persian Gulf as a possible source for Noachian legends (although a similar Black Sea transition from fresh water lake to salty sea in the same timeframe has also been proposed). If humans were living in the Persian Gulf valley until 8,000 years ago then an environmental disaster would have caused massive migrations and climactic changes.

[Reel Festivals] My Arab Spring | Reel Festivals: From the Atlantic coast of Morocco, to the gentle waters of the Persian Gulf, as they lap the shores of Bahrain, a distance of more than 3,000 miles. Governments are toppling, regimes that have been in place for generations crumbling.

[SWJ Blog] The Persian Gulf Military Balance | Small Wars Journal: Yet in spite of constant urging from U.S. officials, Cordesman notes that defense cooperation among the Gulf Arab states remains much less than what it should be. This lack of cooperation diminishes significant mutual defense synergies these countries could achieve in areas such as air defense, missile defense, sea control in the Persian Gulf, and offensive deterrence directed at moderating Iranian behavior.

[Red Room Blogs - All] THE PERSIAN GULF WAR: 1991 | Steven Robert Travers | Blog ...: Secretary of State James Baker assembled forces from Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, The Netherlands, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Turkey, The United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. American forces represented 74 percent of the 660,000 troops.

[Gulf Stream] The Persian Gulf: A Name that Triggers National Pride | Gulf Stream: The use of “Arabian Gulf” instead of “Persian Gulf” has created strong reactions among Iranians throughout the world. In response to reactions by Iranians and others, sources close to the US Navy told a BBC Persian reporter, “This decision was made because US allies in the region generally and in their official correspondence use the term Arabian Gulf and we have stopped using the term Persian Gulf in order to be in line with them and will now be using the term the Arabian Gulf.”

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