Expats Flee the Muslim Arab Gulf Trucial States. US Troops Moving In.

It looks like Trump's Iran war is writing the final chapter in the Boom and Bust story of the politically virgin-prostitute Arab Gulf states? The British colonial crooks called them Trucial States i.e. they provided them protection (against who-the-hell-knows) in exchange for their oil. They rose from the desert to replace their beige tents and dark slaves with shimmering high rises and a still dark foreign workforce. You see Gulf Arabs had never worked, neither before discovering oil beneath the sands, nor afterwards. Unless tending to one's camels and goats is considered work.

Suddenly, Western expats - who otherwise hate their hosts in the Islamic Gulf Arab States, but have kept low profile so as not to jeopardize their lucrative jobs as prostitutes to the Sheikhs - are revealing the true nature of their hosts: Repressive, xenophobic, and deeply Islamic: even non-Islamic schools in the UAE are forced by law to make their non-Muslim schoolchildren chant a Koran-laden, Islam-praising, national anthem!! Yes, my dear MAGA morons: Trump is sending your children to be killed to protect Sharia-embracing Islamists.

The Sheikhs, Emirs, Sultans and such Bronze Age potentates wail and nag, but they don't fight. They have purchased - more likely were made to purchase - trillions of dollars worth of US weapons (It's how the girls pay their pimp). But they don't use them. They take the blows of the Iranians without responding BECAUSE the American ansd British pimps are supposed to protect their virgin girls in their flowing robes and gigantic cars. 

In nearby Iran, the Iranians refused the extortion protection of the British (and more recently American) pimps, which prompted the latter to mount a coup, arrest the democratically elected Mohamed Mosaddegh, and replace him with the decadent stooge Shah. That was in 1953. Iran, by the way, had been a neutral partner of the western alliance against the Turkish Ottoman and Russian empires. Ever since, the Iranians loathe westerners, and much of the present mutual hostility can be traced back to that violent overturn by the CIA and its British accolytes of a democratically elected government just to steal the Iranian nation's oil. 

The West tried it too in Egypt in 1956 (not for oil, but for control of the Suez Cana) but failed. The US did it also in Chile, killing the democractically elected Salvador Allende (1973), supposedly as part of the US fight against the Quixotic windmill of Communism. 

And now, the imbecile Trump thinks we are still somewhere between late 19th - early 20th century. But as Chief Justice John Roberts just told the Trumpian goons at a SCOTUS hearing on Birthright Citizenship: "It’s a new world. [But] it’s the same Constitution.” 

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Expats flee Dubai over snitches in their WhatsApp groups

Our Foreign Staff

Expats have fled the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over fears of being reported to police by fellow WhatsApp group members after sharing images of the Iran war, a campaigner said. “People who previously shared content but deleted it later are concerned they may have been reported at the time of sharing it and could thus still be arrested. Some people at risk have left the country.” Ms Stirling explained that in both cases the expats had been approached by police at their homes.

“They were informed that the authorities had been told they had material on their phones,” she added.

Detained in Dubai is supporting several people arrested under the UAE’s cybercrime laws. These include a British air steward in his twenties, who was allegedly detained over a privately shared airport photo and is currently in a single “overcrowded cell” with 60 others.

The London-based air steward for the low-cost airline FlyDubai is said to have taken a photo of the aftermath of an Iranian drone crash near Dubai airport on March 7 and sent it to colleagues, asking whether the area had become safe.

Cybercrime laws in the UAE are among the strictest in the world and any commentary about regional conflict, government policy or security matters could be seen as a criminal offence.

Those found guilty of breaking the Gulf state’s strictest laws on taking pictures of attacks could receive a sentence of 10 years in prison or fines of up to £200,000.

The Telegraph previously revealed how a 60-year-old British tourist was arrested after allegedly filming missiles.

The London-based holidaymaker was later charged along with 20 other people under the Gulf state’s cybercrime laws. This was despite the man deleting the video from his phone immediately when asked and telling police he had no intention of doing anything wrong.

As of Tuesday, the Foreign Office is understood to be assisting six British nationals who have been detained on charges relating to pictures of Iranian attacks.

It is understood some have been released, while others may not have informed the Government of their arrest.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are providing consular assistance to a small number of British nationals detained in the UAE in connection with issues related to images of Iranian attacks, and our Ambassador is engaging with the Emirati authorities about their cases.”

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US moves troops to hotels in Middle East – seemingly in violation of its own rules of war: report
Ariana Baio
Thu, April 2, 2026

The Pentagon may have violated its own rules of war by moving troops from U.S. bases, targeted by Iran, to hotels and other civilian locations in the Middle East region, the New York Times reported.

Since the start of the conflict, initiated by President Donald Trump’s missile strikes, Iranian forces have been targeting U.S. bases throughout the region. Bases, such as the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia and the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, have been damaged and at least a dozen service members have been killed.

As a result, troops have been moved to office spaces and hotels throughout the region where they’ve been working remotely, military personnel told the New York Times last month.

If true, this could mean the Defense Department has violated a U.S. Law of War, which says officials must use their best efforts to distinguish military forces from others to mitigate civilian casualties and property damage.

The Independent has asked the Pentagon for comment.

Iranian forces have damaged US airbases throughout the Gulf region, which has led some troops to be relocated to other civilian areas, according to a recent report (SOCIAL MEDIA via REUTERS)

Iran has launched a retaliatory missile strike campaign against the U.S. since America and Israel began their attack in late February. Iran has targeted U.S. military bases in addition to U.S. embassies and recently warned it would attack U.S. businesses throughout the Gulf region.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had already asked people to report locations where troops are located, which U.S. officials said would not intimidate them from ceasing attacks.

The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia issued a travel advisory this week, warning American citizens that “gathering” areas could be potential targets.

Mitigating civilian casualties is a main pillar of the U.S. rules of war as well as the Geneva Conventions. Forces are not to target civilians unnecessarily and are asked to do what they can to ensure civilians are kept out of harm's way.

Section II of the U.S. Law of War states that parties in conflict should “physically separate, as feasible, their military objectives from civilian population and other protected persons and objects.”

However, the manual also says it may not always be feasible to do so in cases where forces are “housed in populated areas to take advantage of existing facilities.”

The US has launched thousands of strikes on Iran, hitting military, industrial and civilian site since the attack began in late February (AFP via Getty Images)

More than 300 American service members have been injured since the beginning of the attacks, and at least 13 service members have been killed. Roughly 20 U.S. aircraft, including a critical American spy plane, have been damaged.

Trump is expected to deliver an address to the nation on April 1 after publicly vacillating between increased military threats to Iran and claims of diplomatic progress in reaching an agreement to end the war, which has spiked domestic gas prices and roiled global energy markets with Iran’s effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for global oil supplies.

Trump initially said American naval vessels would escort ships through the passage but has since repeatedly demanded European allies to contribute naval support for an operation to reopen the strait to maritime traffic.

The administration is also reportedly weighing a potentially risky ground operation to seize uranium from deep inside Iran, what would mark a major escalation of a conflict that has entered a second month.

This week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the U.S. will “operate within the confines of the law” when questioned about the president’s threats to destroy Iran’s electricity plants and desalination plants, civilian infrastructure that could amount to war crimes under international law if targeted.