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Embattled Qatar Is Rich Enough to Get By for Another 100 Years
A year into the Saudi-led embargo, the tiny Gulf nation is doing just fine.
Construction of the Doha Metro system is expected to be finished in 2019, ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
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It’s been a year since Saudi Arabia and three of its Arab allies hit Qatar with an economic embargo over ties to Iran and the alleged funding of terrorism. To listen to the Saudis, the embargo has been a great success, so much so that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has dismissed his Gulf neighbor as too insignificant to bother with.
The standoff is something for a junior minister to deal with, a royal court adviser tweeted in March, citing the prince. “We have not been deprived of anything,” the adviser said. “Qatar has been deprived of everything.”