Dubai has only ten days of fresh food left after the closure of the Straits of Hormuz has cut the United Arab Emirates (UAE) off from all its imports, including food. In Abu Dhabi, with the prospect of the region becoming unliveable, real estate prices are also collapsing.
As bne IntelliNews reported, the Hormuz chokepoint could kill Dubai, a hub of investment and business in the region. The Gulf countries don’t have any water and don’t produce much food for their combined population of around 60mn people. Fresh products in particular like vegetables and fruit are almost all imported. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) closed the Straits of Hormuz to oil exports on March 2, but the embargo also effectively blocked all food imports at the same time.
The Emirates imports between 80% and 90% of its food, with roughly 70% of food shipments to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries normally passing through the Strait of Hormuz on the 100- odd ships that traversed the Straits until a week ago.
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Oh NO! RICH people live in Dubai!
-The Media!
there’s also many slaves who live in dubai
i sure wonder who, of the two, will be denied food
I wonder if the LARGE NUMBER of slaves might discover an alternate source of nutrition?
Nobody, because there is plenty of food. The article even says so.
Maybe they’ll eat the rich
But let’s just send our food over to them. Surely it will trickle down this time!
Horse and sparrow ftw