War In Iran

Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
What was it vimothy wrote a couple of years back about Arab states "publicly condemning but privately welcoming" a US/Israeli strike against Iran's uranium facilities? Uh, not so privately any more, it would seem: Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme

The leaked US cables also reveal that:

• Officials in Jordan and Bahrain have openly called for Iran's nuclear programme to be stopped by any means, including military.

• Leaders in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt referred to Iran as "evil", an "existential threat" and a power that "is going to take us to war".
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It's never been a secret that there's precious little love between the Arabs (Sunni Arabs, anyway) and Iran, but has it ever been as explicitly stated as that by the Arab states themselves?
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
It's more than "little love" though -- it demonstrates how desperately seriously they take the possibility, which confirms what we've been saying for five years. It also demonstrates that, contrary to what has sometimes been assumed or claimed, America has been resisting serious pressure from Israel and a majority of Arab regimes all along.
 
swears

swears

preppy-kei
Remember when HMLT used to post links to Counterpunch or whatever saying that a US invasion was coming ANY DAY now? Good times.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
So, there has been a Guardian FRONT PAGE announcing that Israel is on the brink of bombing Iran, and nobody mentioned it on Dissensus. How sad.
 
B

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
I was gonna comment, but only to say that i am completely dumbfounded. Mind you, Israel has form for this, with the 1981 Osirak attack in Iraq. Even more dumbfounded by the US plans for Iran being blindly followed by the UK. That would be madness.

The story about Syrian forces laying mines on the border region with Lebanon is nuts too.
 
luka

luka

Well-known member
the history of oil in iran is very interesting. lots of colourful characters and incidents.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
e/y said:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/2...ncies-see-no-move-by-iran-to-build-a-bomb.xml
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Yet some intelligence officials and outside analysts believe there is another possible explanation for Iran's enrichment activity, besides a headlong race to build a bomb as quickly as possible. They say that Iran could be seeking to enhance its influence in the region by creating what some analysts call "strategic ambiguity." Rather than building a bomb now, Iran may want to increase its power by sowing doubt among other nations about its nuclear ambitions. Some point to the examples of Pakistan and India, both of which had clandestine nuclear weapons programs for decades before they actually decided to build bombs and test their weapons in 1998.
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Someone hasn't done their homework - India tested its first nukes in the '70s...
 
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