When 60,000 soccer fans gathered in Jeddah for the Arabian Gulf Cup on Tuesday, they inadvertently highlighted the vulnerability of major sporting events hosted by the Gulf monarchies to the wars raging across the region. The previous day, Saudi Arabia resumed strikes on Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen after the collapse of a four-year-old ceasefire. That truce originally came in the wake of a Houthi attack on an oil facility near the Formula 1 circuit in Jeddah during a training session. While football for two weeks…
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