Special to WorldTribune.com

ABU DHABI — The Gulf Cooperation Council, with U.S. support, was
expected to destroy Iran’s military in any regional war.

A leading Gulf strategist said the six GCC states were capable of
repelling any Iranian attack. Riad Kahwaji, chief executive officer of the
Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, said GCC forces were
superior to Iran’s military.

“Blocking the Strait of Hormuz would be suicidal and provoke an
immediate and aggressive military action by an international alliance that is the most powerful and formed in a record time to completely destroy Iran’s armed forces especially maritime capabilities and not only to reopen the strategic waterway,” Kahwaji said.

Speaking on the sidelines of a regional management conference in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 16, Kahwaji said Iran was incapable of closing the Strait of Hormuz. He said the UAE would play a key role in any war to reopen the strait.

Former UAE Air Force commander [Ret.] Maj. Gen. Khalid Abdullah Albu Einan agreed, Albu Einan said the GCC militaries have greatly enhanced their capabilities over the last few decades.

“The [Iranian] closure of the strait would last only four or five days,”
Albu Einan said.

GCC officials said the alliance was preparing for any Iranian attack,
including one by nuclear weapons. They said the GCC was organizing its
members to establish facilities to detect radiation fallout from Iran.

“The Gulf Cooperation Council member countries are seriously considering
setting up a nuclear radiation detection laboratory,” GCC secretary-general
Abdul Latif Bin Rashid Al Zayani told the conference in Abu Dhabi.

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