{"id":40724,"date":"2019-09-03T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40724"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:22:49","slug":"uaes-favorite-pass-time-eating-out-could-soon-become-greener-with-food-waste-slashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40724","title":{"rendered":"UAE\u2019s favorite pass-time \u2013 eating out \u2013 could soon become greener with food waste slashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"70\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: As the US tries a new way to protect shipping across the Arabian Gulf amid tensions with Iran, it finds itself sailing into uncertain waters.<\/p>\n<p>\nFor decades, the US has considered the waters of the Arabian Gulf as critical to its national security. Through the gulf\u2019s narrow mouth, the Strait of Hormuz, 20 percent of all crude oil sold passes onto the world market. Any disruption there likely will see energy prices spike.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US has been willing to use its firepower to ensure that doesn\u2019t happen. It escorted ships here in the so-called 1980s \u201cTanker War.\u201d America fought its last major naval battle in these waters in 1988 against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\nNow, the US Navy is trying to put together a new coalition of nations to counter what it sees as a renewed maritime threat from Iran. But the situation decades later couldn\u2019t be more different.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US public is fatigued from years of Mideast warfare after the Sept. 11 attacks. The demand for Arabian Gulf oil has switched to Asia. Gulf Arab nations poured billions of dollars into their own weapons purchases while inviting a host of nations to station their own forces here, even as infighting dominates their relations.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Iran finds itself backed into a corner and ready for a possible conflict it had 30 years for which to prepare. It stands poised this week to further break the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, over a year after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord and imposed crippling sanctions on the country.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt is plausible to imagine a scenario where these forces stumble into some type of accidental escalation,\u201d said Becca Wasser, a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corp. who studies the region. \u201cWhile US efforts are intended to deter, Iran may view increased US maritime presence as offensive in nature or as preparation for a larger attack on Iran and respond accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: As the US tries a new way to protect shipping across the Arabian Gulf amid tensions with Iran, it finds itself sailing into uncertain waters. For decades, the US has considered the waters of the Arabian Gulf as critical to its national security. Through the gulf\u2019s narrow mouth, the Strait of Hormuz, 20 percent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}