Gulf Airports Built to Connect the World Are Now in the Crosshairs
The Wall Street Journal · Omar Abdel-Baqui, Stephen Kalin ·
The region’s renowned aviation hubs are a few hours from much of the world’s population, but even closer to Iran’s missiles
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The Gulf states have bet hundreds of billions of dollars that building airports between the major air markets of Europe and Asia will let them grow into the world’s dominant aviation hubs.
Geography is now working the other way. The same positioning that puts the Gulf within a four-hour flight of one-third of the world’s population also leaves it well within range of missile attacks from Iran and its militia allies from around the region.
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