Gulf Oil Producers Push Back Against US-Iran Accommodation Talks

🛢️ GULF — The states that need oil flowing are blocking the deal to reopen it. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Gulf producers fear a rehabilitated Tehran more than high prices — a US-Iran deal leaving IRGC structures intact threatens their regional order. Saudi, UAE, and Kuwait calculate Iranian leverage expires through defeat, not accommodation. This hardens the floor beneath Witkoff and Kushner: any framework Tehran might accept now faces a Gulf veto through Washington's back channel.