{"id":207745,"date":"2026-07-15T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/207745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:47:16","slug":"trumps-move-to-reward-uae-for-supporting-war-in-iran-attacked-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/207745\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s move to reward UAE for supporting war in Iran attacked in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Trump administration\u2019s move to reward the U.A.E.<\/a> for its support during the Iran war<\/a> by granting it better access to U.S.-made AI<\/a> chips has been attacked in Congress and likened to influence-buying.<\/p>\n

A rule change introduced by the administration Friday promotes the emirate to a group of privileged trading partners that includes European allies, India and South Korea and means that it can freely purchase technology with potential military applications.<\/p>\n

The emirate had appealed for the shift in designation since the Joe Biden era and its ultimate success principally stands to benefit its main AI company, G42, which can now buy the chips needed to run advanced AI models from Nvidia<\/a> and its competitors.<\/p>\n

G42 is controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the U.A.E.\u2019s national security adviser and the brother of the country\u2019s president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Tahnoon reportedly intends to see G42 become a U.S. company with majority ownership by American investors.<\/p>\n

The development represents a potential great leap forward for the Middle Eastern state\u2019s economy as it seeks to diversify and could be worth billions of dollars, according to industry experts cited by The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump with the U.A.E. President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the G7 in France last month (Getty)<\/p>\n

However, California Democratic Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove expressed conflict of interest concerns at a House of Representatives committee hearing Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt smells like it could be an illegal pay-to-play scheme,\u201d she said, echoing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren\u2019s earlier denunciation of the deal as \u201ccorrupt.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Their criticism stems from the fact that the U.A.E. bought a 49 per cent stake in Donald Trump<\/a> family\u2019s cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial just four days before his second inauguration in January 2025, an investment worth $500 million.<\/p>\n

The country has also promised to invest $1.4 trillion in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Kamlager-Dove questioned Commerce Department official Jeffrey Kessler at the hearing, who said he had not discussed chip exports with Trump\u2019s family and called the agreement with the U.A.E. \u201cone of the most significant achievements of the administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House has also dismissed her concerns.<\/p>\n

\"CaliforniaCalifornia Democratic Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove has expressed conflict of interest concerns of the deal to streamline access to AI chips for the emirate (Getty)<\/p>\n

Previously, the emirate languished in a lesser trading grouping, alongside the likes of China and Yemen, which required it to apply for a license from the Commerce Department, a lengthy and bureaucratic process.<\/p>\n

The new designation also means that Silicon Valley titans like Microsoft and Open AI can now build data centers in the country without complications.<\/p>\n

Yousef Al Otaiba, the state\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., downplayed any disquiet over the development and said it merely \u201cadvances decades of deep and dependable U.A.E.-U.S. cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The emirate originally lobbied Trump against launching his Operation Epic Fury airstrikes against Tehran but, once he proceeded, the country joined the fight by firing missiles of its own, intercepting Iranian counterblasts and continuing to ship oil through the contested Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

In addition to backing the war, the U.A.E. signed the Abraham Accords during his first term and has proven itself a loyal ally, a quality the current president particularly values<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been with the United States for a long time, but I would say much more so since I came on board,\u201d Trump said in praise of the country at a recent G7 gathering in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[13360,989,26566,51416,382,40551,16821,5084,34,12613,49,21434,396,16582,201,81,5485,1372,60756,35115,31256,272,1332,256],"class_list":["post-207745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-color-image","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump-us-president","tag-evian-les-bains","tag-france","tag-full-length","tag-g7-summit","tag-horizontal","tag-iran","tag-meeting","tag-middle-east","tag-mohammed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan","tag-people","tag-persian-gulf-countries","tag-photography","tag-politics","tag-politics-and-government","tag-president","tag-sheik","tag-talking","tag-two-people","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-us-president","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116923600162310409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207745","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=207745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}