The following excerpts from a January Bloomberg report about 'Dubai helping Iran evade sanctions' is an indispensable read.
It provides an interesting background for US silence about the escalatory alleged Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader in a fancy hotel in the middle of Dubai, bordering on complicity. (The assassins wore tennis outfits, some say, a reminder to Dubai who rejected an entry visa to Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer this time last year.)
Dubai is seen as a major obstacle in light of Washington's serious efforts at imposing a new round of biting sanctions against Iran as a way of forcing it to freeze its nuclear programme.
Unless it shuts down its trade and other economic transactions with Iran, including investments, tourism etc, as explained below, no sanctions could work effectively.
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