Search results
- Notably, however, Qaboos maintained cordial relations with a wide range of countries regardless of their political alignment, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, and navigated neutrality on a number of contentious regional issues, including Iranian nuclear ambitions, the GCC’s blockade of Qatar, and the civil war in Yemen.
www.britannica.com/biography/Qaboos-bin-Said
People also ask
What problems did Qaboos bin Said face?
Who is Sultan Qaboos bin Said?
Who is Qaboos bin Said?
Did Sultan Qaboos bin Said die from colon cancer?
Qaboos bin Said, sultan of Oman from 1970 until his death in 2020. He took power in a bloodless coup that sent his father, Sa’id ibn Taymur, into exile. Qaboos oversaw numerous modernization projects and made considerable progress in ending Oman’s isolation. Learn more about his life and reign.
- Saʿīd IBN Taymūr
In Qaboos bin Said …in 1965 by his father, Saʿīd ibn Taymūr,...
- Saʿīd IBN Taymūr
The first pressing problem that Qaboos bin Said faced as sultan was an armed communist insurgency from South Yemen, the Dhofar Rebellion (1962–1976). The sultanate eventually defeated the incursion with help from the Shah of Iran, Jordanian troops sent by his friend King Hussein of Jordan, British Special Forces and the Royal Air Force. [19]
Jan 15, 2020 · Qaboos deposed his father Said bin Taimur on July 23, 1970. He took over an impoverished country with a weak state and a Britain-focused isolationist foreign policy, lacking in infrastructure...
Jan 11, 2020 · (AP) On Friday, Oman’s monarch, Sultan Qaboos bin Said died after having ruled the country for nearly five decades. Various news reports suggest that Qaboos had been suffering from colon cancer since 2014.
- 153
Mar 17, 2021 · Realizing his rule could not be legitimized through conquest alone, in July of 1970, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office aided in the coup d’état which placed bin Taimur’s son, Qaboos bin Said, upon the throne.
Jan 13, 2020 · The Death of a Temperate Leader in an Intemperate Region. Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who died on Friday, brought Oman into the modern age and made the Iran deal possible. By William J. Burns....
Jan 10, 2020 · BEIRUT, Lebanon — Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, who over nearly five decades in power transformed his Persian Gulf kingdom from an isolated enclave into a developed nation known for...
