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Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Arab Gulf leaders to reassure them that U.S. isn\u2019t cutting them out of negotiations with Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio with his counterparts Thursday after a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Manama, Bahrain. (Eric Lee\/Pool\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 It took a three-month war and a 14-point peace plan to shatter the Persian Gulf\u2019s image as a beacon of stability and influence in a troubled Middle East. But on a whirlwind two-day trip to assuage U.S. allies, Secretary of State Marco Rubio did his best to put it back together again.<\/p>\n

The top U.S. diplomat traveled to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain this week, delivering a message of reassurance to U.S. allies that had been targeted by Tehran\u2018s drones and missiles but were largely left out of ongoing U.S.-Iran peace talks.<\/p>\n

Rubio assured the foreign ministers of six Arab Gulf states Thursday that there would be \u201cno part of this deal that\u2019s undertaken that in any way undermines the security, stability or prosperity of any of our partners in the Gulf region.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for this alliance, not just in the defense realm, but also in the economic realm,\u201d he said in opening remarks at a ministerial meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe status quo situation is worse than it was before the war started,\u201d said Dania Thafer, executive director of Gulf International Forum, a Washington think thank. \u201cThese countries had never been attacked regularly and to that degree. All the red lines were crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew Leber, a nonresident scholar at the Middle East program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, described \u201ca general resignation toward the terms of the deal\u201d in the Gulf, with both Saudi Arabia and the UAE \u201cviewing this as the best they can hope for from a president who is no longer focused on the war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump \u201cdoesn\u2019t seem capable of striking a better deal,\u201d Leber said, but was now focused on \u201cselling\u201d the deal he had.<\/p>\n

If that deal goes as planned, Iran\u2019s new leaders<\/a> \u2014 widely considered more hard-line than those before the war \u2014 could receive hundreds of billions of dollars in reconstruction funds. They are already receiving money in the form of sanctions relief on oil sales.<\/p>\n

Gulf states are concerned that Tehran now has \u201caccess to a lot of money to do all the bad things that Iran does without any checks … except kind of a vague threat from Trump to return to the military campaign,\u201d said Michael Ratney, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

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An image of Iran\u2019s current and former supreme leaders at a mosque in Tehran on Thursday. (Majid Saeedi\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Rubio, long an Iran hawk, has been quiet on the memorandum of understanding reached between Tehran and the Trump administration signed earlier this month, leaving much of the public defense of the deal to its chief negotiator, Vice President JD Vance.<\/p>\n

Dismissing the suggestion that there was a divide with Vance on the issue, Rubio said Thursday that they were both part of a team working together to support the president. \u201cI\u2019m here today because [Vance and other U.S. officials] were overseas last week. We all have a role to play in this regard,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>

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The secretary was the most senior U.S. official to visit the Gulf region since the war started on Feb. 28. In some ways, his visit showed a return to prewar norms.<\/p>\n

In his first stop in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, Rubio emphasized the friendly personal ties that exist between the Trump administration and the Gulf\u2019s ruling families, bringing Michael Boulos, Trump\u2019s son-in-law, to a working lunch with UAE president Mohamed bin Zayed.<\/p>\n

Asked why Boulos, who does not hold an official position, was invited to a high-level diplomatic meeting, Rubio said that the young businessman was a \u201cgood friend\u201d who happened to be in town and that he did not participate in any policy discussions at the Emirati lunch.<\/p>\n

The same day, Rubio attended a flag-raising ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City and the State Department announced that the embassy, which still shows signs of damage from Iranian drone attacks, would resume operations.<\/p>\n

In Bahrain, Rubio met with King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, with the two discussing a regional security pact and other issues such as artificial intelligence and critical minerals, according to a U.S. readout of the meeting.<\/p>\n

Rubio said that his meetings with officials at the Gulf Cooperation Council, which included a pull-aside with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, had been positive and that there had been unanimity on key issues, including rejecting Tehran\u2019s proposals for tolls or fees on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

\u201cFees and tolls are the same thing to me,\u201d Rubio told reporters, adding that Oman, which also claims territorial waters in the strait, had agreed with the other five council members on the issue.<\/p>\n

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Oil tankers and cargo vessels anchored off the coast of Oman on Tuesday after being stranded for days amid port congestion that prevented them from docking. (Elke Scholiers\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

At the same time, however, some countries are seeking some degree of rapprochement with Iran. Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told the Financial Times<\/a> this week there were efforts among Gulf countries to work with Tehran to create a \u201cregional security framework.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even in the UAE, which was one of the most aggressive in responding to Iranian attacks, there was a begrudging acceptance that it would have to be \u201cpragmatic\u201d by working with Tehran\u2019s new leaders, somehow. \u201cWe all understand \u2014 there was no knockout,\u201d said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a political science professor and analyst based in Dubai.<\/p>\n

Ironically, some analysts said, the tentative deal could see Iran even more intertwined with the Gulf states it recently targeted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran has more leverage now,\u201d said Thafer of the Gulf International Forum. \u201cIf the goal of the war was a more isolated Iran, the result may be the opposite.\u201d<\/p>

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