Weekly Jamiat JHB comment – Emerging fault lines in the Middle East
Troops have entered Bahrain coming from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. They have entered the country to protect the regime which has weathered waves of protests in the past two months.
The GCC is made of six nations on Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Qatar and Bahrain itself. They claim to come together among other things for mutual defence.