Qatar’s safe streets are an important draw for foreign workers, enjoying tax-free earnings and the gentle time in the winter. But on Monday night, a volley of Iranian missiles led for a US military base with a comfortable bubble.
The sound of bursts – shakes windows and activate emergency sirens – triggered panic inside DohaVilhgious blangio covers Shickeks the cavernous hall and shoppers with exits. Video footage shows a black shoe left in rush. Throughout TRANQUIL CITY, parents relieved children afraid of explosions.
Among millions of mobile expatriates with the power of regional economies full of oil-ads and consist of half of the Gulma population, IranQatar’s attack prompts questions about survival of countries long to be regarded as the oases of prosperity and security in a rough region.
Regional workers from the well-paying financial and energy executives of blue collar workers from South Asia, which built infrastructures in countries and continued to run.
Pllegmatic is a lot of foreign workers. Others were tried in the war with the first attacks of Iran houti houti houti hout energy infrastructure in 2019 and 2022, hit by Donald Trump’s first term.
But the Gulf population burns in recent years. For many newcomers, these are their first experience in a Middle East War – even if indirectly.
“The reaction depends on how long you are in the region,” said a UAE-based bank. “Some of the most recent people, even in Dubai, are like ‘Oh my God, it’s not what I signed for’.”
Since Israel attacks Iran for no two weeks ago, the Gulf Monarchies pushes to end the battles and return to talks. They hope to avoid wider regional strikes and avoid catching crossfire as a result of many US military installations in Gulf States.
Iran strikes on Monday targets of the world’s largest US military bases come in retaliation for its US nuclear attacks on its nuclear infrastructure.
After the sun, Trump announced that Iran and Israel agreed to a stop at Tuesday morning after Israel said new missiles, and threatened to answer.
Iranian missiles in Qatar’s sky are usually offensive to air defenses, which causes casualties.
But if it is a manifestation of military theaters, “I prefer the safe £ 200-a-ticket, inaccessible to the average people, an expatriate doha resident on Monday night.
The mood on Tuesday morning is “tense but comforted”, as a Palestinian-British-Canada-Canada-Canadian-Expatian in Doha. During the attack he said his reaction was “WTF” but in the morning he felt safe, enjoying how the government was maintained like Internet and Electricity.
On social media, some residents call evening events that do not cause to be compared to Israel’s bombing.
But a Senior British Expatriate based on Doha for two decades that his peers “were a bit shelled”.
“The US base is just a good base outside of town,” he added. “However, it is not so pleased to get through, and the insecurity of the future without a doubt in the mind of all.”
Many organizations send emails that tell staff that Tuesday is a normal working day, and the senior expatriate expects most employees to appear.
In Dubai, the second largest city in the region after Riyadh, some expatriates have already plotted overland routes in Oman. To a company, employees of a security call ask for evacuation plans, but are changed.
WhatsApp groups connect to the safety of staying region during an unknown Trump period, and some expatriates prefring flights through the “missile alley” tire.
But many foreigners are inoines, with their primary concern for the disruption of opening and the potential to delay or eliminate summer holiday plans.
Phil Miles, Associate Managing Director for Adviser Kroll’s decision management, says some clients “posted staff with no significant home progress”.
Some professionals say they feel confident in the Gulf with no economic impact.
“There is no disruption to the intensity of flow, in addition to the ceasefire – it is all positive,” said Monica Malik, Chief Economist at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. “We are also on quieter travel trip and tourism season for the region. So we do not make any changes to oil forecast.”
For a Dubai-based economist, “Saudi’s economic slowdown is more important than all the game in the last few days”.
But not everyone is convinced. Gaffour, a limousine driver in Doha, saw the plummet business since World Cup in 2022, and feared further economic deprivation as a result of growing geopolitical stress.
“There is any business,” he said. “All my friends are concerned.”
