At Least One Country Agrees With Netanyahu: Saudi Arabia

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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/28939-focus-at-least-one-country-agrees-with-netanyahu-saudi-arabia

Just look at the past week. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards — Shias to a man — have been fighting on behalf of the Iraqi government army — almost Shias to a man — against Sunni militias around Tikrit. This is Shia Iranian expansionism on a scale undreamed-of since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. At least 2,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards are fighting alongside Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria. Against Sunni militias. Then the US President seeks foreign policy medals with a friendly US-Iranian agreement on nuclear power. And finally, Saudi Arabia thinks the Israeli Prime Minister is its friend.

No wonder US Secretary of State John Kerry rushed from his nuclear talks to Riyadh on Thursday to assure the Saudi royal family that despite the cosy arrangement he is working on with Tehran, the US would not take its eye off Iran’s “destabilising actions” in Iraq and elsewhere.

Rather more feisty than his American opposite number, the elderly Saud bin Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister, talked about the “hegemonic” actions of Iran, telling Kerry that “Iran is taking over Iraq”, a comment that might be less damaging to the Americans if it did not contain the merit of truth.

Iran is boasting of its military assistance in the Tikrit battle, its soldiers flying their own national flag inside Iraqi sovereign territory; Iranian state television is broadcasting footage of its Revolutionary Guards in the Iraqi desert — and the presence of that most infamous of Iran’s clever generals, Qasem Soleimani. So when Benjamin Netanyahu stood up in the US Congress to warn of the global threat of Iran, it was only to be expected that Faisal Abbas, the editor-in-chief of the Saudi Al Arabiya English-language news channel, would announce that, while “it is extremely rare for any reasonable person to ever agree with anything Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says or does … one must admit, Bibi did get it right, at least when it came to dealing with Iran”.

Abbas might not represent the Saudi royal family – but he would never have uttered such words unless they had been blessed by the monarchy.