{"id":168686,"date":"2026-06-20T04:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/168686\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:30:10","slug":"why-the-iran-war-brought-the-us-and-uae-even-closer-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/168686\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Iran War brought the US and UAE even closer together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email<\/p>\n<p>In February 2026, U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran triggered a wider regional crisis, putting Gulf states under pressure. But instead of weakening the UAE\u2019s relationship with Washington, the conflict brought the two countries closer together. This episode of CNBC Explains looks at how defense, investment, AI and financial ties are reshaping the UAE-U.S. partnership \u2014 and what that means for American influence in the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email In February 2026, U.S. and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[2329,1405,5031,3437,124,1065,135,648,1698,1703,52339,698,34,49,1007,579,123,81,947,272,51,2788],"class_list":["post-168686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-breaking-news-middle-east","tag-breaking-news-investing","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-defense","tag-defense-contracts","tag-defense-policy","tag-intl-digital-video","tag-investment-strategy","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-neutral","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-politics","tag-technology","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-states","tag-world-economy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116780559386493883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}