Qatar hosts the largest U.S. airbase in the region, which is crucial to its national defense.
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani on Tuesday called for "a dialogue of openness and honesty" to resolve the crisis, and denied accusations of supporting extremism.
On Monday, Qatar was ejected from the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. And on the same day, the Shiite Houthi group, which with support of Iran has been fighting a war against the coalition since March 2017, denied access to a UN envoy in charge of mediating efforts to the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.
The GCC split will further strengthen Iran's role in the region, and intensify the political struggle in Iraq and Syria as world powers are battling for a leading role in reshaping the political arrangement after the Islamic State was defeated, said Yu Guoqing, a researcher at the Institute of West Asian and African Studies of Chinese Academy of Social Science.
No one can ignore the role and influence of the alliance of Russia and Iran in post-IS era in Syria and Iraq, and now more time is needed to observe how the alliance of Saudi Arabia and the United States can recover from this crisis, Yu said.
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