Tehran/Washington, July 18 -- Gulf states are watching with growing concern the intensifying conflict between the US and Iran, as a sustained cycle of strikes and retaliatory attacks have increasingly raised fears of a wider regional war.
Regional tensions have been further complicated by escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen, which has vowed to break the blockade imposed against it.
All diplomatic efforts to contain the war too have largely either stalled or otherwise been met with effective failure, as the flurry of visits by Pakistani and Qatari delegations to Tehran to preserve the ceasefire has only led to growing pessimism among regional diplomats, given that Qatar itself has been stru...