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Btw while everything else is being discussed militarily, the biggest ticking disaster, (especially for UAE), is the Ecological Disaster, in case of one or more oil spills in the Hormuz. This will be a huge long term disaster, as was being discussed by an Analyst at Bloomberg.
Any spill will not impact Qatar, Bahrain or even Iran, as the Water flows Northwest as it enters the Gulf, makes a turn at Iraq/Kuwait ports and flows back along the South East direction, ending at UAE before it exits (see the arrow below).
Since the inflow from Oman Sea / Indian Ocean is much stronger, so anything at the entrance of Hormuz will be pushed back into Persian gulf due to inflow pressure and will all be naturally deposited at the coastlines of UAE, due to the shallow depth and lowest pressure (as this is the widest area in Gulf, away form the main inflow path).

Any spill will not impact Qatar, Bahrain or even Iran, as the Water flows Northwest as it enters the Gulf, makes a turn at Iraq/Kuwait ports and flows back along the South East direction, ending at UAE before it exits (see the arrow below).
Since the inflow from Oman Sea / Indian Ocean is much stronger, so anything at the entrance of Hormuz will be pushed back into Persian gulf due to inflow pressure and will all be naturally deposited at the coastlines of UAE, due to the shallow depth and lowest pressure (as this is the widest area in Gulf, away form the main inflow path).
- That will be a disaster for UAE's tourism for decades to come, all prime properties worth hundreds of billion of Dollars would become worthless.
- Not only economically, but it will badly hit the desalination systems or can permanently cripple them.

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