Dawood Al Basri
The GCC countries will face enormous security and military challenges in the future that need a quick response.
Perhaps the most important one is the challenge of terrorism that is backed and directed by major countries in the region, done through mobilising intelligence and supporting the terror gangs disguised under the slogans of ideological, religious, and sectarian idealism. They exploit the sectarian heritage to escalate the already-tense situation.
It appears that the Saudi-Gulf Operation Decisive Storm has provoked all spirits that have emerged from holes screaming, rumbling, puffing and threatening the Kingdom and other Gulf countries to bring on grave consequences.
That was clear in what the Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander, Mohammad Ali Jafari, did recently, as he did not shy from declaring with arrogance and defiance about terrorist threats against Saudi Arabia, although he knows well the inability of his terrorist gangs to challenge the strong wall of the coalition, break into its fortified citadel, and manipulate its individual entities and the attributes of its national unity, which in turn enhances the strength of the
Gulf stance.
Jafari, like others who live in an illusion or act out of arrogance, imagines that the silence and tolerance of Saudi Arabia means weakness, but he knows for sure that challenging the Saudi barrier will not only lead to smashing his head, but will also extend it lengthwise and crosswise to destabilise the weak and tattered Iranian foundations, which is another issue and a different file, whose details are not yet open for discussion!
Under the congested and sensitive atmosphere in the Arab region, and with the continuity of the Operation Decisive Storm for attaining its goals, achieving its objectives, and expanding its framework to include several hot files of regional conflicts that are relevant to the raging regional divergence, there is an ongoing crucial and heated clash to put an end to related major regional files that are protracted, carrying within themselves details of many angles.
Today, these conflicts are facing the final and crucial test. Operation Decisive Storm created a grand surprising strategy by overturning the table and ending the chaotic stage that was characterised by widening Iran’s blatant interference in regional affairs, in such a way that it had reached a very serious stage necessitating its end, since there were threats to topple some Arab regimes, and imposing a comprehensive hectic state, as Iran did in the Iraqi and Syrian grounds.
Today, the Gulf Arab countries are facing serious and different threats in light of the escalation of sectarian conflicts in the region and its entry into the deployment phase amid the threat of the ‘yellow winds’ that are blowing in the region.
The absurd, aggressive and pretentious threats by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders against Saudi Arabia and the GCC countries can never provide an atmosphere of understanding or extend bridges of trust between the different parties to the conflict.
Tehran bears such an ideology and directs funds to that role, which is closely related to the current crisis. Iran threatens to expand as it launches media campaigns that lack civility and logic.
Countries in the region are surrounded by burning crises; the internal situation of Iraq is inflammable as it has entered the stage of a sectarian civil war, which weakened the Iraqi state allowing sectarian militias to fiercely spread everywhere.
That does not bring good news for Iraq in the light of the rampant strength of sectarian militias that have contributed to demolishing the national immunity and drawing division and fragmentation lines, besides their threats to neighbouring countries.
The uncontrolled militias in Iraq have infringed on the sovereignty of the nation state and become a ready tool for disturbing the regional peace. Whoever follows the movements and statements of their leaders will realise immediately that their agenda, orientation schemes, and plans draw the flowchart of their actions that remain within the sectarian strife, which they have mastered and the Iranian regime has been exploiting for decades!
There is no doubt that Operation Decisive Storm, with all regional dimensions and strategic implications, came at the right time as a strong and effective response to the challenges imposed. It does not constitute aggression as far as being a defensive attempt to abort evil and aggression, and to spread civil regional peace away from any disordered agenda that some parties have been working on since more than a decade.
The Arab region of today constitutes an explosive strap of crises after the Syrian people’s revolution has reached a bloody and tough stage by facing the Syrian regime in the race for defending their existence. On the other hand, the regime experienced recent defeats on the ground that foreshadow the necessity of ousting it, which in turn will lead to many developments and the results that will change the shape and nature of the regional conflict.
In Iraq, events are accelerating in a long-distance race between the federal government and the militias that are trying to seize power, imposing ground changes that aim at protecting the crumbling sectarian sites after the defeat and the collapse of the Iranian project in the East.
That happened at the same time when the media hype of Tehran is escalating and threatening the neighbouring countries with doom and destruction. The Iranian media launches heated campaigns that can never realise the rapid developments.
Reckless screams and threats cannot be a substitute for dialogue or listening to reason, wisdom, and logic.
The Gulf States while passing through the curves of the current conflict realise that the challenges are great, promoting coherence and greater coordination is the panacea for all the ills for the sake of building a regional peace beyond the state of tension that prevailed in the region for three decades.
There is no doubt that the Arabian Gulf after Operation Decisive Storm will never be the same.
There is a promising future whose results are appearing now, confirming that the Gulf is moving on the path of goodness and peace, which are the goal and option of free people.
However, the Gulf countries will never be silent about the threats, and will exercise their legitimate right to reply with what will make their opponents and haters suffer real
trouble.
I say to the insane, fear the anger of the tolerant one; there could be real surprises in the Gulf’s pouch that may become nightmares for its enemies.
