GENEVA CENTRE’S STATEMENT ON THE ONGOING AND RAPIDLY ESCALATING HOSTILITIES IN THE GULF REGION
18 March 2026. The Geneva Centre expresses deep concern over the ongoing and rapidly escalating hostilities in the Gulf region, involving direct military operations by the United States of America and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the subsequent retaliatory strikes by Iranian forces across multiple Gulf States and against U.S. and allied military assets.








