Arab officials: We paid for the war with Iran, now we are worried that America will leave According to NBC News, a regional official revealed that the United States informed some of its allies in the Persian Gulf of this decision just hours before the attacks on Iran began on February 28 (March 9). According to this report, during the war several US military forces left the main bases to defend against Iranian attacks, and the return of all these forces to their previous positions is not guaranteed. According to the report of this American media outlet, Iran's attacks destroyed the building of the US Joint Operations Center in Qatar, known for short as "CAOC"; the center which is referred to as the focal center for the management of US military operations in the region. "Barbara Leaf", the former US ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, said that the defense and security infrastructure that Washington created in the region over the past 35 years has suffered a lot of damage, and now both the US and its partners have doubts about the purpose and necessity of continuing this presence. Meanwhile, "Tom Barak", the American ambassador to Turkey and a figure close to Trump, declared at the World Security Forum in Doha that the era of countries' reliance on the United States as a guarantee of global security is over. According to NBC, the authorities and experts of the Persian Gulf countries fear that the countries of the region will first bear the costs of the war and the consequences of the retaliatory attacks by Iran and Yemen, and then, after the end of the war, they will face the withdrawal of additional American forces.