Iranian drones over Bahrain: Egypt and Gulf monarchies condemn the attacks

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France measures the scale of the diplomatic earthquake: the Versailles agreement, signed on June 17 between Washington and Tehran, falters in its first fortnight under successive drone strikes and cross-fired missiles.

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Washington assesses the magnitude of the challenge posed to its Middle East de-escalation strategy as Iranian drone strikes on Bahrain, home to the U.S. 5th Fleet, directly threaten the memorandum of understanding signed with Tehran the previous week.

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Berlin watches with growing apprehension as the fragility of the US-Iran ceasefire becomes apparent following consecutive strikes that threaten to plunge the Gulf into uncontrolled escalation.

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Jerusalem reads the Iranian drone crisis as proof that the U.S.-Iran memorandum remains structurally fragile, unable to constrain Tehran's systematic policy of aggression against its neighbors.

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Madrid reads the Strait of Hormuz crisis as the fracture of a security architecture eight decades old: the American bases, intended to protect the Gulf monarchies, have become targets for Iran.

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Moscow reads the Gulf escalation as a sequence of mutual escalations: Iranian drones on Bahrain, US strikes, IRGC counter-attack—each side invoking self-defense to justify the next move.

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Doha views with alarm the unraveling of the US-Iran ceasefire, as Iranian drone strikes on Bahrain and a tanker attack in the Strait of Hormuz directly threaten the regional stability upon which the Gulf economy depends.

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