Who is Sultan Qaboos? Oman ruler in power 50 years after overthrowing his father in a palace stroke

Bud – On January 10, 2020, the Sultan Qaboos, who was in the old sentence and was elagid Oman He died, starting a complex and ancient succession process in the country. A closed envelope containing the name of the new Sultan, Haitham Bin Tariq al said it opened, ending the speculation for a decade over who among the relatives of the Sultan who have no children who will replace him.

Who is Sultan Qaboos? Oman ruler in power 50 years after overthrowing his father in a palace stroke

1. Already in power 50 years

The Sultan Qaboos led Oman for 50 years and played an important role in the direction of Oman foreign policy wise in a way that he was saving the country is isolated from the turbulence that grabbed his neighboring countries.

His main success included maintaining the state neutrality in the ongoing dispute between Qatar and its neighboring countries, facilitating the release of three US climbers arrested by Iran in 2009 and played the role of mediation in the United States and Iran talks, which resulted in a nuclear agreement of the Joint Action Action Plan (JCPOA) in 2015.

By launching the optimal encyclopedia, in recent years, the health of Qaboos has declined, which has caused a wide speculation of his long life and could replace the ruler who does not have the child. Some trips are in a hurry to European medical facilities with two reals 747 jets (A4O-MN and A4O-HMS registration number), combined with the absence of Sultan for a long time from public life, causing speculation about the risk of the succession process, which can be used by ambitious family branches as a rare Hijack opportunity.

2. To declare after throwing his own father

Confidentiality and redundancy surrounding this process is caused by Sultan’s concern that the successor candidate can get enough power to challenge him while still alive; It is not too imaginative concern, considering that Qaboos himself has the power overthrowing his own father in a palace blow.

The family said he has ruled Oman since 1744 and the absence of direct heirs during the reign of Sultan Qaboos has caused a potentially complicated challenge for the royal family. After the funeral of the Sultan (attended by tens of thousands of Oman residents who were fattening), the long -awaited selection process began; The Oman Royal Council has officially received three days to choose a new Sultan based on the interpretation of the desire of late regulators.

If the decision cannot be taken in that period, Qaboos decides that the secret letters remaining in the pazos throughout the country containing the names of the throne should be opened. Confidentiality and redundancy around this process are caused by Sultan’s concern that the successor candidate – if he is subjected to the world before his death – can get enough power to challenge him while still alive; It is not too imaginative concern, considering that Qaboos himself has the power overthrowing his own father in a palace blow.

This very fast change shows that the political movement in the family was carried out before and that the agreement was made before the death of the Sultan. Some analysts even speculated that the death of the Sultan occurred a few days earlier, but the announcement had been postponed to allow succession negotiations to be done without the public being known.

3. Initially had 3 replacement candidates

The three main candidates traditionally dominates the evaluation of the dynasty; Assad, Haitham and Shaheb, all of which are the niece of the late Sultan. Last week’s announcement about Haitham Bin Tariq al said the successor to surprise many people, with his half -brother Assad was seen as a favorite candidate; His wife is still related to the mother of the Sultan Qaboos and served as a personal representative of Qaboos until the death of the Sultan.

Assad is also known for being popular with Oman military officers’ body, because he himself trained at the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy in Britain with satisfactory value. The unusual involvement of Sultan Qaboos in Assad’s marriage, Sayyid Taimur, in 2004, showed that the Sultan not only gave the new prince the blessing, but also indirectly his blessing to the prince’s father.

It is suspected that Qaboos can even deliberately perform Assad’s appearance as a preferred choice for successors in response to the palace conspiracy.

The relatively professional nature of the armed forces contributed – combined with the diplomatic neutrality of the deceased Sultan and the resistance of Islam’s unique flow in the country to extremism – in a relatively isolated country of the surrounding disorder.