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US-Iran talks: UAE ‘braced for the worst’, hoping for diplomacy

South China Morning Post1 November 2026, 11:35 UTCBahrain

The UAE is hoping for a breakthrough in negotiations between Iran and the United States while being prepared for the worst, a senior official said on Sunday, following threats of a resumption of the Middle East war. “We’re hoping that there is a diplomatic breakthrough,” diplomatic adviser to the UAE president Anwar Gargash said during a conference in Manama, Bahrain. “It is not the interest of the region to go through another round … But I think we’re also, as we’ve shown before, braced for the...

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