{"id":58924,"date":"2026-06-24T11:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58924"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:44:54","slug":"rubio-starts-middle-east-trip-as-gulf-allies-sceptical-about-iran-deal-seek-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58924","title":{"rendered":"Rubio starts Middle East trip as Gulf allies sceptical about Iran deal seek answers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> (Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABU DHABI, June 24 &#8211; U.S. Secretary of \u200bState Marco Rubio held talks with top United Arab Emirates officials on Wednesday on a Middle East tour, seeking to reassure Gulf allies who \u200cview a proposed Iran peace deal as too generous to a state that attacked them\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">in the war<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/donald-trump\/\">President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;deal, signed last week, includes a proposed $300 billion fund and the waiver of some sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arriving in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi late on Tuesday for a three-day tour of the oil-rich Gulf, Rubio is undertaking his first high-level diplomatic mission\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/us-waives-iran-sanctions-trump-says-he-will-do-what-i-have-to-if-tehran-2026-06-23\/\">on the agreement<\/a>\u00a0to end the four-month-old U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rubio held a working \u200blunch with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and other senior figures, including National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Foreign \u200bMinister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) ABU DHABI, June 24 &#8211; U.S. Secretary of \u200bState Marco Rubio held talks with top United Arab Emirates officials on Wednesday on a Middle East tour, seeking to reassure Gulf allies who \u200cview a proposed Iran peace deal as too generous to a state that attacked them\u00a0in the war. President Donald Trump\u2019s&nbsp;deal, signed last week, includes a proposed $300 billion fund and the waiver of some sanctions. Arriving in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi late on Tuesday for a three-day tour of the oil-rich Gulf, Rubio is undertaking his first high-level diplomatic mission\u00a0on the agreement\u00a0to end the four-month-old U.S.-Israeli&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58926,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924\/revisions\/58926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}