Marc Pellas Geopolitical analyst, specialising in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. Oman: How the Shah of Iran Saved the Regime Marc Pellas · March 2020 The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos Ibn Said, who died in January 2020, waged, at the beginning of his reign in the seventies, a war of several years against a Marxist rebellion in the Dhofar. It was with the support of British troops and later Iranian air and ground forces; in an operation conceived (…)