RICHTVXNEWS
Gulf states must rethink trillion-dollar defence in light of US-Iran war, says report
THE GUARDIAN · LONDON — IISS study questions over-reliance on American support and ‘over-dependence on expensive, high-end systems’ Gulf states are going to have to reconfigure their trillion-dollar defences given the damage inflicted on their economies and the questionable continued value of US bases in the face of Iranian attack, according…
- CODE
- RT-729E1D
- PUBLISHER
- The Guardian
- TOPIC
- World
- PUBLISHED
- 30 October 2026 · 12:06 UTC
- FIRST SEEN
- 30 October 2026 · 12:30 UTC
- ORIGINAL
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/gulf-states-rethink-trillion-dollar-defence-us-iran-war-iiss-report
- SHA-256
- 8baf75620e35ba9c12b6d7f4e99d119bd5c9857ecb6f91007bad9158e3c6a69c
The fingerprint is the SHA-256 of the original link, the headline and the publication time joined by “|”. Anyone can recompute it to confirm the headline and link were not changed here.
Headline and short excerpt from The Guardian, taken from its public news feed. The full story and its photos belong to The Guardian — read it at the original. RICHTVX NEWS is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with The Guardian. Corrections: legal@richtvx.news.