Pragmatic choice: Israel’s war backfires as Gulf backs US-Iran deal
A war meant to isolate Iran instead deepened Gulf pragmatism and strengthened support for diplomacy.
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Smoke rises over Tehran after an explosion, Iran, February 28, 2026. [AP Photo]
This screengrab from a handout video shows a missile being launched from a US Navy ship in support of Operation Epic Fury, February 28, 2026. [Handout/US Central Command via AP]
Firefighters work to extinguish flames in a building after a direct hit by an Iranian missile in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 28, 2026. [Tomer Neuberg/AP Photo]
A black plume of smoke rises from a warehouse in the industrial area of Sharjah City in the United Arab Emirates following reported Iranian strikes in Dubai, UAE, March 1, 2026. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]
Debris lies in a room of Gandhi Hospital, damaged when an Israeli-US strike hit a state TV communications tower and nearby buildings across the street during the US-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, March 2, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Graves are prepared for victims during a mass funeral ceremony for 165 schoolgirls and staff killed on February 28, 2026, in what Iran has described as a US-Israeli attack on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab, March 2, 2026. [Handout/Iranian Foreign Media Department via AP]
A Muslim leader leads volunteers in prayer next to a police facility hit during the US-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, March 4, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Israeli tanks manoeuvre near the Israel-Lebanon border in northern Israel, March 4, 2026. [Ariel Schalit/AP Photo]
A shepherd boy walks away from an unexploded projectile that landed in an open field on the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria, March 4, 2026. [Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo]
A giant poster of late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh is seen as workers inspect a building destroyed in an Israeli air raid in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, March 5, 2026. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]
Two women from the Iranian Red Crescent Society stand as a thick plume of smoke from a US-Israeli attack on an oil storage facility rises into the sky in Tehran, March 8, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
People inspect the site where Israeli air raids hit several houses in Sir al-Gharbiyeh village, southern Lebanon, March 8, 2026. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]
Flames rise after an Israeli air raid in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburb, March 9, 2026. [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]
Mourners attend a funeral procession for senior Iranian military officials and civilians killed during the US-Israeli military campaign, in Tehran, March 11, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
A woman sits amid rubble across from a residential building damaged during the US-Israeli air campaign in Tehran, March 12, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble after an attack in southern Tehran, March 13, 2026. [Sajjad Safari/AP Photo]
Smoke and flames rise from an Israeli air attack on the Qasmiyeh Bridge near the coastal city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, March 22, 2026. [Mohammad Zaatari/AP Photo]
A journalist carries burned safety gear after an Israeli air raid on a car that killed Hezbollah-run Al-Manar TV correspondent Ali Shoeib, Beirut-based Al Mayadeen TV reporter Fatima Ftouni and her brother, video journalist Mohammed Ftouni, in Jezzine, southern Lebanon, March 28, 2026. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]
Rescue workers and soldiers carry a victim’s body from the rubble of a residential building, a day after it was struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, Israel, April 6, 2026. [Ariel Schalit/AP Photo]
Rescuers work at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, April 8, 2026. [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]
Mourners attend a reception ceremony for the bodies of Lebanese state security forces members killed in Israeli strikes on Nabatieh, in Sidon, southern Lebanon, April 11, 2026. [Aziz Taher/Reuters]
A demonstrator kisses a symbolic boot in tribute to a Lebanese fighter during a protest against direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, April 11, 2026. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
A man flashes a victory sign while carrying an Iranian flag in front of an anti-US billboard, with Farsi slogans reading “The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed” and “The entire Persian Gulf is our hunting ground”, at Islamic Revolution Square in central Tehran, April 13, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Mohamed el-Junayd, 43, who says he survived the Israeli attack, sits beside piled-up damaged cars at the site of an April 8 attack on Corniche al-Mazraa in Beirut, April 13, 2026. [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]
Displaced woman Ghada Mohammed Fadel, who fled her home following an Israeli displacement order, holds her twin babies, Mohammed and Mehdi, inside a university-turned shelter in Sidon, southern Lebanon, April 13, 2026. [Aziz Taher/Reuters]
A container ship sails through the Strait of Hormuz off Qeshm Island, southern Iran, April 18, 2026. [Asghar Besharati/AP Photo]
People sit at the site of an Israeli attack carried out just before a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel took effect, in the Abbassye area of Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 18, 2026. [Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters]
Girls gesture as if launching missiles while singing next to portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei during a state-organised rally marking the birthday of Imam Reza and expressing support for the leadership, in Tehran, April 29, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Buildings lie in ruins in the historic Saray neighbourhood following an Israeli attack earlier this week, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency, in Nabatieh, May 20, 2026. [Reuters]
Ali Salman, 12, injured in an Israeli air attack, lies on a bed at Jabal Amel hospital in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, May 26, 2026. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]
Cars jam a highway as people flee Beirut’s southern suburbs after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered strikes on targets in the area, Lebanon, June 1, 2026. [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]
Mourners carry the coffins of dentist James George Karam and his children, Theodosia and Tony, killed in an Israeli attack, during their funeral in Qlayaa, southern Lebanon, June 3, 2026. [Stringer/Reuters]
Kuwaiti officials inspect damage at a Kuwait international airport terminal after a drone and missile attack, in Kuwait City, June 3, 2026. [Handout/Kuwait News Agency via Reuters]
People walk under a banner bearing portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes on February 28, in Tehran, June 6, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Mourners attend the funeral of four people, including a woman and a medic, killed in an Israeli attack the previous day in Zebdine, Haret Sidon, southern Lebanon, June 7, 2026. [Aziz Taher/Reuters]
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