# Qatar opens food and air corridors via Iran and Turkey during the blockade

Date: 2017

## The fact

In June 2017 Qatar opened food and air corridors via Iran and Turkey after the four-state blockade. Tamim’s government negotiated the stopgaps.

## Context

He did not author the blockade. [Erdoğan](/people/recep-tayyip-erdogan) sent troops and food. Iran opened airspace and ports. Households met shortages then relief. Authorship of the rupture is neighbouring.

Blockade 5 June is the parent shock. Al-Ula ends it.

The emir of Qatar is head of state and, in practice, of government under the 2004 constitution as applied. He does not write FIFA statutes, UN Security Council resolutions, Hamas military orders, or ILO conventions by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Amiri Diwan of Qatar carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: June 2017 Qatari corridors via Iran and Turkey, independently reported.

Not established: that prices returned to pre-blockade that week, or that he caused the blockade.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Turkey and Iran supplied. The four had cut the land border. He did not order the cut.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Qatar opens food and air corridors via Iran and Turkey during the blockade, not a later speech about Qatar opens food and air corridors via Iran and Turkey during the blockade.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Qatar opens food and air corridors via Iran and Turkey during the blockade on 2017-06-10 is not a licence to treat every later Amiri Diwan of Qatar communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Qatar opens food and air corridors via Iran and Turkey during the blockade into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He opened alternative corridors. Turkey and Iran supplied. The four had cut the land border. He did not order the cut. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tamim bin Hamad Al: https://factrail.ai/people/tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani

## Drivers

- Food-Price Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/food-price-pressure
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulf-qatar-iran-idUSKBN19B0K4
- https://www.diwan.gov.qa/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/qa-iran-corridor-2017