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The Paris-based press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), said it was "relieved" to learn of the pardons issued by the sultan, Qaboos bin Said Al-Said.

The sultan of Oman has issued a pardon for about 50 bloggers and human rights activists who were recently sentenced to long jail terms on charges of defamation, cyber-crime or illegal assembly.

"During his visit to Iran, the sultan of Oman described his own takes on the positions of US officials and he will convey our position to them," the foreign minister was quoted as saying.

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Not because he thought it might be rubbish, but because it was being held at the Beverly Hills hotel – one of many owned by the sultan of Brunei, who recently enacted some anti-gay and anti-adultery laws in his native land.

The first visit by a foreign leader to Iran since Hassan Rouhani assumed the presidency came earlier this week with the arrival of Oman's sultan, Qaboos bin Said Al Said.

But elsewhere in the UAE, the new "city" called Masdar (founded, incidentally, by the minister now driving Emirati investment in Egypt, Sultan al-Jaber) was supposed to house 50,000 people by now.

He said that the sultan could be legally challenged for his decision to remove the then-incumbent chief minister during a political crisis.

Its sultan issued a sharia-based code that includes such penalties as stoning and amputation.

But in Kuwait, there are restrictions on who can vote (certainly no women), while in Oman the sultan has the final say on who can be elected.

A former British prime minister, Tony Blair, has a consultancy contract as Mr Nazarbayev's sultan of spin.