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Concern In Saudi Arabia And Gulf States That Biden Administration s Policy Of Appeasing Iran Will Come At Their Expense
March 3, 2021 | By B. Chernitsky
Introduction
With President Joe Biden s election, the Gulf states - especially in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain - are concerned that this administration will revive the Obama administration s lenient policy towards Iran and its proxies in the region, and will reinstate the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, from which Biden s predecessor, Donald Trump, withdrew.[1] From the Gulf states perspective, the main problem with this deal is that it ignored the issues of Iran s ballistic missiles and its interference in the countries of the region. They fear that the Biden administration will reinstate the deal without expanding it to include these issues, despite declarations by Biden and by State Secretary Antony Blinken that these issues will be addressed.[2] Furthermore, in the recent weeks the Gulf states have demanded to be includ