on Tuesday announced that the trade and travel blockade it led for more than three years against its tiny but super rich neighbor is finally over.Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman invite and welcome Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani to a Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in the kingdom. The move is
for the first time in three and a half years. In 2017, when the four Arab nations broke off diplomatic ties, accusing Qatar of supporting Islamic terrorists and Iran, one of the demands they had presented to Qatar in order to mend the rift had been the closure of the pan-Arab news outlet, which is Qatar’s greatest coup in media and has continued to operate and remain prominent in the region.
Lifting the Saudi-led blockade is expected to reverberate most significantly in the sports rights arena, largely because Qatar will be hosting the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament and normalization is expected to give the event a big boost.
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