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Sultan Qaboos of Oman has died 🇴🇲

Key player in regional diplomacy, long believed to be ailing. 🙏🏻
Successor in #Oman unnamed, distinct from other Gulf countries.

Royal family to meet & find agreement on successor. Failing to do so, determination made according to letter left behind by #SultanQaboos

Knowing sultan been ailing, expectation is family have agreement on a name.
Leading names of to succeed #sultanqaboos of #Oman are his cousins:

• Deputy PM Asaad bin Tariq Al Said
• Minister Haitham bin Tariq Al Said

Both seen below respectively 👇🏻
Sultan Qaboos deposed his father in 1970 with the help of his uncle. He later married his uncle’s daughter, but it ended in divorce, producing no heir.

The two likely successors (named above) are his first cousins & brothers of his previous wife.

#FamilyAffair #Oman
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#Oman's new Sultan is Minister of Culture Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, cousin to #SultanQaboos

Succession determined by opening sealed letter left by former Sultan, not family agreement.

Oman defense council unsealed the letter as royal family awaited announcement 👇🇴🇲
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