Mounting friction between the US and Iran is likely to cause Iran’s economic downturn to deepen but, on its own, this doesn’t pose a major problem for the Gulf economies. The bigger threat is that tensions escalate and spill over via either a proxy war or direct conflict between Iran and the Gulf.
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