By Garsha Vazirian

The rain fell, and the UAE’s house on sand is falling

By choosing US and Israel over neighborhood, UAE ignored tectonic shifts that have now brought storm to its doorstep

TEHRAN — The United Arab Emirates had a defining choice to make, and it made the wrong one. For years, Abu Dhabi cast itself as the clever pragmatist of the Persian Gulf, a nimble trader that could glide above the region’s oldest fault lines.