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Sultan Haitham bin Tariq

هيثم بن طارق
Head of state In government Verified

Sultan of Oman since January 2020, after the death of his cousin Sultan Qaboos. Continued Oman's tradition of regional neutrality and quiet mediation.

Country
Oman
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state

Position

2 source documents on file for Sultan Haitham bin Tariq (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Sultan Haitham bin Tariq that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • We call for sanctions to be imposed on Israel in response to its blatant violations of international law and its unlawful encroachments on the sovereignty of states.
    ندعو إلى فرض عقوبات على إسرائيل ردّاً على انتهاكاتها الصارخة للقانون الدولي واعتداءاتها غير المشروعة على سيادة الدول.
    2025 Sultan Haitham at the 80th UNGA — the strongest sanctions call from any Gulf monarchy on the record. Notably stronger than Qatar's "state terrorism" framing. gadebate.un.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Sultan Haitham bin Tariq [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/haitham-om
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Sultan Haitham bin Tariq." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/haitham-om.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-haitham-om,
  title     = {{Sultan Haitham bin Tariq}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/haitham-om},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.