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Rubio Heads to Bahrain on Final Leg of Gulf Reassurance Tour

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Rubio Heads to Bahrain on Final Leg of Gulf Reassurance Tour

🛫 MANAMA — Rubio is selling a deal Gulf states watched fracture in real time. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Bahrain hosts the US Fifth Fleet — its buy-in isn't symbolic, it's operational. But Katz publicly rejected Lebanon withdrawal, Iran's FM labeled the US a destabilizer, and Qatar opened a parallel Hormuz track without Washington. Rubio arrives with no new guarantees. Gulf skepticism isn't softening; it's accumulating evidence.

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