Qatar Says It’s Time Gulf Arabs Start Talks with Iran

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Gulf Arab neighbors recently ended a more than three-year rift

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By Simone Foxman

January 18, 2021 at 10:00 PM UTC

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January 19, 2021 at 10:55 AM UTC

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Qatar has urged Gulf Arab nations to enter a dialog with Iran, saying the time was right for Doha to broker negotiations now the neighbors have begun to patch up their own differences.

Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who’s long called for a summit between leaders of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council and the Islamic Republic, said his government was “hopeful that this would happen and we still believe this should happen.”