# Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and close borders with Qatar

Date: 2017

## The fact

On 5 June 2017 Saudi Arabia and partners imposed a land, sea, and air blockade on Qatar, listing demands. [Mohammed bin Salman](/people/mohammed-bin-salman) was the rising Saudi principal.

## Context

Demands included Al Jazeera and [Muslim Brotherhood](/organizations/muslim-brotherhood) files. Qatar denied. Kuwait mediated. He was deputy then crown prince during the siege. The 2021 GCC summit ended it as a neighbouring later instrument.

Yemen 2015 is a different war. Al-Ula 2021 is a different date.

The Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia chairs the Council of Ministers and, in practice, the Public Investment Fund and Vision 2030 delivery. The King remains head of state. Royal decrees, cabinet decisions, and PIF board papers are the instruments. He does not write a UN resolution, an ODNI assessment, or a US CAATSA designation.

## Evidence and sources

Saudi Press Agency carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) and [food-price pressure](/drivers/food-price-pressure) in a small import-dependent state: a completed blockade is a dated coercion instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 5 June 2017 Saudi-led cutoff of ties and borders with Qatar, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later Qatari calorie coefficient from that week, or that the 2021 repair never happened.

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.

He was the rising Saudi principal. Qatar withstood.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and close borders with Qatar, not a later speech about Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and close borders with Qatar.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and close borders with Qatar on 2017-06-05 is not a licence to treat every later Saudi Press Agency 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 Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and close borders with Qatar into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Saudi Arabia led the cutoff with UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt. He was the rising Saudi principal. Qatar withstood. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The King, cabinet, PIF, Aramco, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. An intelligence assessment is not a criminal conviction.

## People

- Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud: https://factrail.ai/people/mohammed-bin-salman

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access
- Food-Price Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/food-price-pressure

## Sources

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40155829
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulf-qatar-idUSKBN18W0WQ

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-qatar-blockade-2017