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Oman offers both Britain and the United States the use of air fields and other facilities.
In exchange, both countries cooperate with the sultanate and conduct military maneuvers and sells it weapons. Sultan Qaboos Ibn Said is the head of state, prime minister and defense minister and has slowly built the armed forces. The military has been deploying the British Challenger II tanks and the navy is deploying its Qahir class corvettes. Like other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Oman worries over its Iranian and Iraqi neighbors and Teheran's increasing influence in the region. Oman has promoted regional security cooperation through the GCC but so far the results have been few.