Iran's blockade cripples Qatar's gas exports, threatening economic transformation

Widespread economic displacement risk for Qatar's 90% foreign workforce; potential mass migration if companies fail and capital exodus accelerates.

For three decades, Qatar transformed desert into skyline on the strength of a single waterway, and in late February that wager came due. Iranian forces sealed the Strait of Hormuz, severing the artery through which more than sixty percent of Qatar's national income once flowed, while missile strikes scarred the industrial heart of Ras Laffan. The blockade has not merely paused an economy — it has placed in suspension an entire national identity built on the promise that energy wealth could be converted, in time, into something more durable.

Iran's blockade cripples Qatar's gas exports, threatening economic transformation

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