Dubai bans Iran protests. The UAE's The National, via Sue Hutton: "Police dispersed the 70 or so Iranian protesters who had assembled for the fifth day outside the Iranian consulate, earlier today. The Ministry of the Interior had permitted them to stay on the previous days. A Dubai policeman said that orders had come from high-level officials. 'They (the protesters) have delivered their message to the Iranian government.' It certainly looks as if the Gulf states are backing the incumbent president of Iran." Seems like this is certainly a place the US and Congress could lean on Dubai.

Posted by Laura at June 18, 2009 12:17 PM