With Iran Ascendant, U.S. Is Seen at Fault
Arab Allies in Region Feeling Pressure
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Kuwait rarely rebuffs its ally, the United States, partly out of gratitude for the 1991 Persian Gulf War. But in October it reneged on a pledge to send three military observers to an American-led naval exercise in the Gulf, according to U.S. officials and Kuwaiti analysts.
"We understood," a State Department official said. "The Kuwaitis were being careful not to antagonize the Iranians."
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