... In many cases dominated by the Gulf States, the Arab-driven security structures ignore other key regional actors, primarily Iran. Hence, these schemes appear rather as “private clubs” rather than institutions able to handle urgent security ... ... shortsighted, although frustration with President Obama’s course of action is hardly the primary factor that has pushed Saudi Arabia into confronting Iran. Nevertheless, against the backdrop of a major economic recession, a crisis of governance and ...
... Israel and America’s Republican Party, very few people are against this emerging Iran nuclear deal, which represents the will of the governments of the UK, France, Germany... ... much every Middle Eastern country (including American allies like Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia) as well as the United States in recent decades. Iran has also cooperated... ... powerful country with a powerful and well equipped military, would very likely cost thousands of Israeli lives and could see serious destruction all across Israel major cities...
... 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... ... security architecture.”
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Nikolay Soukhov:
One Thousand and One Nights: Barack Obama
on Missile Defence in the Persian Gulf
Оne of the... ... 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...
... missile “umbrella” is designed to protect its allies on the Arabian Peninsula from the expected missile “rain” from Iran.
Talking to U.S. diplomats and military personnel who have been working in the Middle East for a number of decades, as well ... ... 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....
... distance itself from the Gulf.
It’s amazing that it’s taken us so long to realize how much our money going into Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other Gulf states comes back to haunt us: though Joe Biden recently got in trouble for saying so, support ... ... 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 ...
... States coalition is fighting. Obama calls it “ISIL”. The New York Times and USA Today call it “ISIS.” Others just call it “IS.”
Is’s... ... that “ISIS” is a US-led attempt to destabilize the Islamic Republic of Iran.
But the question that analysts aren’t discussing publicly is whether Iran... ... 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...
