British policy centred on maintaining internal ‘stability’ in the Gulf states and on retaining access to key resources upon which its global power relied.
Middle East
How Britain helped Iran’s Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition
by MARK CURTIS | 21 January 2020
TAGGED: Declassified files, Iran
Britain mourns its favourite Middle Eastern dictator
by KHALFAN AL-BADWAWI | 17 January 2020
TAGGED: Oman
REVEALED: How Boris Johnson and three of his ministers are being courted by a US institute pushing for war with Iran
by MATT KENNARD | 13 January 2020
TAGGED: Iran
John Major cabinet papers: Saudi sections censored
by PHIL MILLER | 31 December 2019
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia
The UK’s secret military unit that answers to Saudi Arabian commanders
by MATT KENNARD | 28 October 2019
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia
How the British establishment is working to keep Bahrain’s ruling family in power
by MARK CURTIS | 16 October 2019
TAGGED: Bahrain
The British military and intelligence establishment is playing a key role in fortifying the repressive regime in Bahrain, it can be revealed.
Britain’s secret Saudi military support programme
by MATT KENNARD | 27 September 2019
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia
The UK’s Ministry of Defence has mistakenly admitted for the first time the cost of a secret multibillion-pound programme it manages for the Saudi Arabian royal family’s de facto protection force, which is also active in the devastating war in Yemen.