s/No/Yes/

s/just//

They're not exclusive

Well... maybe... but US is backing them so... what's your point?

Maybe the Islamic Republic shouldn't have attacked civilian assets in portions of the Gulf that are have been pro-Iran such as Qatar's ONG infra (it is QatarEnergy that has been helping Iran productionize the South Pars field since the early 1990s), Kuwait's welfare office, and the ADNOC loading dock in the Emirate of Fujairah.

Sentiments have hardened amongst Khaleejis [0] who previously were open to an off-ramp.

Edit: can't reply

> haven't hit any schools

They did in Azerbaijan [1]

> apartment buildings full of civilians.

Already did in Saudi [2] and similar incidents have happened in the UAE and Kuwait.

> I'm confused how Qatar is pro-Iran and hosting CENTCOM, which is running the war on Iran

Becuase countries are fine compartmentalizing relations. You see this in US-Turkiye-Iran, US-Qatar-Iran, Israel-India-Iran, US-Armenia-Iran, Turkiye-Azerbaijan-Israel, and other relationships.

In Qatar's case, Al Udeid only opened in 1996, but it was Iran that averted a coup d'état in Qatar in 1996 [3], collaborated with Qatar on supporting Hamas [4] and the Houthis [5], and Qatar became Iran's primary financial conduit abroad via agreements in 2017 [6][7] and 2023 [8].

By allowing the US to base in Al Udeid from 1996 and working with ExxonMobil on LNG exports, Qatar was able to incentivize the US to allow it's continued relationship with Iran.

The world isn't a game of Civ where you are either an ally or an enemy. The reality is countries compartmentalize relations, and when compartmentalization is broken, trust is broken as well.

For Gulf states like Qatar, they took a massive gamble doubling down on building a relationship with Iran - heck, Saudi Arabia-UAE-Egypt almost invaded Qatar due to these ties until Rex Tillerson stopped them [9] becuase the QatarEnergy-Exxon deal was his baby.

Now that Iran is striking Qatar, decades of risk taking was essentially all for naught, and Sheikh Tamim entire foreign policy and economic strategy is now in question internally because he staked his entire legacy on Iran-Qatar normalization in order to carve strategic autonomy from Saudi or the UAE.

The Gulf is very small - it's all the same people who went to the same colleges, worked for the same companies, and now work for the same ministries, so once reputations stick, they really stick and your only choice is to leave.

[0] - https://xcancel.com/MofaQatar_EN/status/2034517464940159428#...

[1] - https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/06/aliyev-vows-attacks-on-a...

[2] - https://tribune.com.pk/story/2596430/israel-launches-fresh-a...

[3] - https://www.danielpipes.org/6317/hamad-bin-jasim-bin-jabr-al...

[4] - https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-hamas/a-57537872

[5] - https://sites.bu.edu/pardeeatlas/research-and-policy/back2sc...

[6] - https://ifpnews.com/iran-qatar-boost-banking-relations/

[7] - https://www.arabnews.com/node/1331176/business-economy

[8] - https://en.irna.ir/amp/85241114/

[9] - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/8/1/rex-tillerson-stoppe...