I doubt that very much. Wouldn't it have been a lot easier to just compensate Dubai directly for their allowing us to use their land as a base of air operations against Iran?
I just don't see this as being good for America. It's hard enough to keep terrorists out of our country, we don't need to pay a pro-terrorist, Arab muslim country from the middle east to help us handle port security on our eastern seaboard. It's insanity.
You are completely wrong about UAE being a "pro-terrorist" country. They are a country allied with us in the war on terror, and are the target of terrorist attacks because of their support for us.
Facts are useful. Try them. Here's more:
We aren't PAYING UAE anything. A company (DP World) owned by the UAE governemnt is PAYING stockholders of a company (O&P) 6.7 billion dollars for the company, after which they will own O&P which owns american companies which have leases on certain port facilities. At that time, some profits from operations will flow up to the DP World company, I presume enough to make it worth their 6.7 billion dollar investment.
And the leases have NOTHING to do with port security. The US companies handle port MANAGEMENT (like where do we store the containers, when are they loaded, when do the ships come and go, how do we fuel them, etc.).
Security is handled by government agencies, just like TSA handles security at airports (only hopefully better).
I don't think this has ANYTHING to do with Iran. Remember, the administration had nothing to do with this deal. This was a business transaction on the world marketplace between two foreign companies. We are only involved because the law requires the administration to make a security determination because of the leases held by subsidiaries of the company being sold.