{"id":17983,"date":"2026-07-20T06:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/russia-warns-us-bases-gulf-warzones\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:45:17","slug":"russia-warns-us-bases-gulf-warzones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/russia-warns-us-bases-gulf-warzones\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Warns US Military Bases in Gulf Could Turn Host Countries into Battlefields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Yelimov, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, has warned that the US military presence in Arab countries of the Persian Gulf may expose these nations to direct conflicts rather than ensuring their security. <\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that any military base affiliated with an &#8216;enemy&#8217; anywhere in the world becomes a legitimate target in the event of war, a situation that could effectively turn host countries into war zones. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Russian official, Moscow is ready to play a facilitating role in reducing tensions between Iran and the United States, as well as resolving issues between Iran and the Arab states in the region. <\/p>\n<p>Yelimov added that Russia does not intend to impose mediation on any party but remains in contact with relevant stakeholders, including Islamabad, Riyadh, and Ankara. These remarks come amid ongoing tensions in regional security dynamics, where the US military presence in several Arab Gulf countries has frequently been a focal point of discord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia warns US military bases in the Gulf risk turning host Arab nations into war zones amid Iran-US tensions and offers to help ease conflicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}