VP and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel and Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow for Middle East Security Bilal Y. Saab write for the National Interest on how a nuclear deal with Iran would affect US policy toward the Arab Gulf states:
Now is the time for the United States to upgrade its partnership with the Arab Gulf states into a real alliance.
Should a nuclear deal between Iran and the U.S.-led group of nations known as the P5+1 (the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany) be reached, it will have significant implications for the security and stability of a strategically vital region for the United States and the global economy.