... referring to Tehran. In a statement released at the Camp David summit the US and the GCC agreed to “cooperate in countering Iran’s destabilizing activities in the region and continue consultations on how to enhance the region’s security architecture.... ... warning system. Several GCC states have necessary defense components in place already, such as short-range Patriot systems in Saudi Arabia and THAAD systems in Qatar, but the new agreement provides for the installation of a comprehensive system that would ...
... Persian Gulf states have an irrational fear of Iran. In April 2015, the United States made steps towards rapprochement with Iran, a move that unnerved its allies in the region even more. This was followed in May, when Washington promised those same allies ... ... of billions of euros”. And it just so happens that Laurent Fabius and French President François Hollande are
currently in Saudi Arabia
as guests at the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf summit, where they are discussing new arms deliveries....
... that of the explosions that happened in 2014, with a sudden oil price spike and panic in the markets.
Boots on the ground in Yemen
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Nikolay Surkov:
Yemen: Between Iraq and Somalia
Just like direct confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia over the Bab el-Mandeb strait, a possible ground operation in Yemen may seriously affect oil prices. Recent reports suggest that
a decision on sending ground forces to Yemen has been made
, but the exact date remains unknown. A ground operation ...
... take the steam out of their radical, violent agenda.
The U.S. will soon overtake (or possibly even already has overtaken) Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world’s largest liquid petroleum producer, in 2015 is supposed to become the top overall ... ... into being an apartheid-like political pariah within the Western world.
4.) There’s a good chance for a thaw/deal with Iran in the near future.
More than any president since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Obama has shown an energy and a willingness ...
... Al Monitor) is an example. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/khamenei-live-blogs-surgery.html#
For Kissinger Iran is the threat
Henry Kissinger, who commended RIAC members during discussions a few months ago, recently posited that Iran is a bigger threat than ISIS because, as a political and religious institution, it has been around longer, and has long held the goal of removing Saudi Arabia as the center of world Islam.
Days before that statement, in a Wall Street Journal teaser article promoting his new book, Kissinger warned that the current world order is collapsing. He used the word “governance” several times ...
... gets ransoms from kidnappings. But that’s not enough to maintain its men and buy arms.”
With ISIL’s growing independence, comes a shrinking ability to control the organization from the outside. This new development actually prompted Saudi Arabia to adopt a stronger stance against the terror group, even though it was keen a few months ago to use its men against President Bashar Al Assad in Syria.
In a rather ironic turn of event, the very warnings which President Al Assad issued ...
Relations within the Iran-United States-Saudi Arabia triangle
The civil war in Iraq is raging on – local Sunnis have risen up against the Shiite authorities. The causes of the uprising lie in the Sunni elite’s resentment of its position in the country and in the role played by ...
