ArabSaga: Iraq-Iran tandem filling GCC’s shoes in Jordan

Iraq's Maliki with Jordan's King Adullah II in Amman

The Islamic Republic of Iran is taking up where the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) left in Jordan.
The GCC proposed in 2011 to invite Jordan (and Morocco) into the regional club. No further development has taken place since and there are no signs any progress has been made or whether the initiative has any traction left at all.
More recently, when protests erupted in Amman against a cut in fuel subsidies, the six GCC partners indicated they would come to Jordan’s rescue with financial assistance. The regional club is seemingly still studying ways to reduce the kingdom’s budget deficit.

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