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Qatar's Crisis With Saudi Arabia And Gulf Neighbors Has Decades-Long Roots

Coverage by the Arabic-language satellite channel Al-Jazeera has long been a sticking point in Qatar's relations with its neighbors. Saudi Arabia and others are pressuring the country to shut down the channel.
Coverage by the Arabic-language satellite channel Al-Jazeera has long been a sticking point in Qatar's relations with its neighbors. Saudi Arabia and others are pressuring the country to shut down the channel.
Corrected: June 17, 2017 at 12:00 AM EDT
A previous version of this story misspelled Mehran Kamrava's first name as Merhan.
Peter Kenyon is NPR's international correspondent based in Istanbul, Turkey.