Qatar wants to bolster the current US - Qatar security pact. This might come as a surprise to anyone hooked on thirdworldist hopium, but the Iranian decision to fire projectiles for two weeks straight and deliberate attempt to crash the Qatari economic hydrocarbon lifeline was not received well in Doha. There's a sense of betrayal amongst the Qatari leadership and as expected they are nestling deeper under the wings of the US security umbrella in the Gulf. Also keep in mind that Qatar used to be Iran's grey zone access point into non-sanctioned economies, Qatar was the closest to Tehran of all the Gulf States.
The bridges between the GCC and Iran have been burnt, the Qatari leadership has demanded the immediate departure of the Iranian diplomatic mission in the country and has called the Iranian attacks unprovoked, dangerous and reckless. Likewise a joint statement by the GCC countries, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon etc. was released. Until recently Qatar was on friendly footing with Tehran, one of only two non-competitive GCC states (Oman the other) to be so due to Iran's role in circumnavigating the Saudi blockade on Qatar a few years back. Qatari (shadow) banks were essential for Tehran to evade sanctions.




