{"id":226356,"date":"2026-05-16T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226356"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:55:53","slug":"the-year-that-shook-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226356","title":{"rendered":"The year that shook the Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates is leaving OPEC. Saudi Arabia is ending its splashiest foreign sports venture. The two U.S. allies are in the midst of a messy divorce, even as both face fire from Iran.Why it matters: One year after President Trump&#8217;s grand tour of the Gulf&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/05\/02\/gulf-countries-saudi-uae-investments-war\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates is leaving OPEC. Saudi Arabia is ending its splashiest foreign sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226356-the-year-that-shook-the-gulf.jpeg",320,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226356-the-year-that-shook-the-gulf-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226356-the-year-that-shook-the-gulf-300x300.jpeg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226356-the-year-that-shook-the-gulf.jpeg",320,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226356-the-year-that-shook-the-gulf.jpeg",320,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226356-the-year-that-shook-the-gulf.jpeg",320,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226356-the-year-that-shook-the-gulf.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226356-the-year-that-shook-the-gulf.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226356-the-year-that-shook-the-gulf.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226356-the-year-that-shook-the-gulf.jpeg",320,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=32\" rel=\"category\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>","tag_info":"United Arab Emirates","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}