I have lived there for three years and reported on the place for 30. Not once have I ever seen a real interview with Sheik Mo. He is closely managed by a group of equally opaque British and Palestinian Arab expatriate mercenaries who have created a well-crafted image him as a horseman and visionary.
In effect virtually nothing reliable is known of the man. Dubai's population is almost entirely made up of expatriates at least 300,000 are Iranian citizens. Only 10% are natives of the UAE.
It is an open secret that Iran maintains one of its biggest spying and intelligence operations abroad in Dubai, as do, in all fairness, the CIA, the British, the Russians, and the French. Almost a whole floor of the American Consulate in the World Trade Center building of Dubai is populated with intelligence agents fluent in Farsi. Iranian spies make their headquarters in an entire floor of the enormous Iranian hospital of Dubai.
Many of the captains who sail back and forth on dhows to Iran from Dubai ... more.
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