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Will US midterm election results spare Gulf states from further war?

DW5 November 2026, 19:12 UTCIran

The US midterm results showed how unpopular Donald Trump's Iran war is. Now, Gulf countries, trapped for months in the middle of the war between the US and Iran, see reason for optimism.

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