At the Qatar Economic Forum in New York, Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani offered a sober reckoning: the Gulf that existed before the wars is finished, and what comes next cannot be built on the old architecture of rivalry and exclusion. His call for a formal security framework — one that would bind Gulf states and Iran alike to mutual non-threat assurances — reflects a region that has paid too high a price for fragmentation to pretend the old arrangements still hold. It is a rare public acknowledgment that lasting stability requires including the very actor most