Arab countries ‘increasingly restricting’ US action against Iran amid Gaza war: Report

A number of Arab countries are reportedly “increasingly restricting” the United States and its allies from conducting attacks from their soil against Iran and resistant groups in the West Asia region amid the Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.

In a report on Wednesday, the Politico magazine cited an anonymous US official as saying that some Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, imposed limitations on the United States’ use of its military bases within their territories for conducting strikes against Iran and resistance groups.

“Amid a rising civilian death toll in Gaza, several Arab countries, particularly those ‘attempting a detente with Iran,’ are ‘increasingly restricting’ the US and partners from conducting self-defense operations from their soil,” the official said.

“This includes limits on retaliatory strikes against attacks in Iraq, Syria, and the Red Sea,” the official added.

The American online magazine stopped short of disclosing the name and exact number of the Arab countries involved in restricting the US access in the region.

According to Politico, the official said that the specific reason the UAE is undertaking such action is that “They don’t want to appear like they’re against Iran and they don’t want to appear too close to the West and Israel for public opinion reasons.”

The US occupation forces and several of Washington’s partners have recently ramped up their terrorist attacks and strikes in the West Asia region in support of the Israeli regime, which has since early October waged a genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

More than 28,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and over 68,000 others injured since the Israeli regime launched its US-backed onslaught on Gaza on October 7, 2023.