Joey Hood, former director of the U.S. Iran Affairs Office, said GCC leaders
meeting Trump at next Tuesday's UN General Assembly should present a unified
stance to influence U.S. policy. Citing repeated Iranian attacks in Omani
waters, Qatari territory and on Saudi oil pipelines, he proposed linking the
Mecca agreement with an existing naval coalition to deploy a force to the Gulf
and the northern Arabian Sea to monitor maritime traffic and deter threats;
"This would not be a military operation, but a peace-monitoring task," he said.
