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International Business Times
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Talek Harris with Robbie Corey-Boulet in Riyadh and Callum Paton in Doha

'Bad For Business': Gulf States Scramble To Avert Wider War

The Gulf states' expensive economic diversification plans rely on a peaceful environment for business and tourism, which is jeopardised by hostilities between Israel and Iran (Credit: AFP)

Gulf states are grappling with the widening Middle East conflict as hostilities between Iran and Israel threaten their security and ambitious plans to reshape their economies.

Leaders of the resource-rich Gulf monarchies engaged in a rapid round of diplomacy after last weekend's Iranian drone and missile strikes on Israel raised the spectre of a regional conflagration.

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