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Washington reads a Gulf losing patience with Trump's war
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What Washington is reading this morning, from the American front pages and the newsrooms that brief it.
The Washington Post led the weekend with the Gulf. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain are united in frustration with the administration, Arab and Western officials told the paper, and some have begun asking whether hosting large American bases still serves them. One official put it plainly: Trump started this war, and we are paying the price.
The Hill carried Tehran's answer to the president's claim that he could declare the Strait of Hormuz American territory. Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi rejected it on X. The same day the UAE accused Iran of hitting a third tanker in under a week.
The New York Times reported eleven people killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, children among them, according to the Lebanese health ministry, with the Israeli prime minister's office saying Hezbollah struck first and wounded three soldiers.
The paper also filed a piece on how the Iran file is consuming the administration's attention while China expands in Asia — the same arithmetic that decides how much of Washington is left for Gaza. Its West Bank reporting from earlier in the week, on Israeli ministers sympathising with settlers as the army fails to protect Palestinians, is still circulating in the policy inboxes.
Foreign Policy catalogued the week's national-security output — drones, cyber, shipbuilding — a list that says what the administration is spending its bandwidth on and what it is not.
The Atlantic convened a panel on Iran's long shadow over American politics, a sign of where the election-year argument is heading. And The Intercept published documents showing an undercover ICE agent offering to build tools for direct-action protests in Minneapolis, in an investigation of a climate group — the surveillance file that American Palestine solidarity organisers have been warning about for two years.
