Wenn Sie Dubai hassen

Graeme Wood: “Dubai has welcomed residents from practically everywhere on Earth, and its openness stands in defiant contrast with Iran. Remember those Iranians in Dubai—600,000 of them, at last count. There are also 150,000 Russians and 370,000 Chinese …

“Dubai is what Iran is not. It has largely rejected government intrusion into the private life of its people. It is open to the world. There is no geographical advantage that makes Dubai a thriving metropolis while Bandar-e Abbas, the Iranian city across the Gulf, remains a suffocating industrial town unlikely to attract Tom Cruise, no matter how many impossible missions he chooses to accept. In 2014, I went to Iran’s closest attempt to replicate Dubai—a tax-free resort island called Kish—and found that most of the foreigners there were expatriate Filipinos, waiting for their work permits to come through so they could go to Dubai …

“So often, this dynamic of defiant contrast underlies hostility between countries. Iran does not like Dubai, because Dubai shows that doing the opposite of what Iran does yields good results. The same is true of Ukraine, whose democracy (with its substantial flaws) Russia could not abide as a standing alternative to its own system, and of Taiwan, which cannot threaten China, but whose flourishing demonstrates that Beijing’s system is not the only option. The fact that Dubai’s very existence is such an affront to Tehran suggests that this war, even if it concludes soon, will not end in a durable peace unless Tehran feels that Dubai has renounced all that has made it great, or has decided that some of that same openness would make Iran great too.”

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Iran is not „open“ because the whole world has sanctioned it maybe? It’s hard for foreign capital to flow in when it is banned from doing so.

To be fair, Iran was not targetting Dubai before the current war, they are desperate and they know the high profile of Dubai sends a strong message to the world (hence why this article was written)