New reports coming out today have the Saudi government warning that they will not allow Israel access to their airspace for a unilateral attack against Iran, and that they plan on intercepting any warplanes that violate their airspace.
The warning was delivered by top Saudi officials to Obama Administration officials, who were to then pass it on to Israel. It was suggested that the Saudis were okay with a US attack on Iran, but didn’t want to back an Israel-only strike.
A number of unnamed Israeli officials were cited as seeing the message as a warning from the US not to launch a strike as opposed to a warning from the Saudis. Defense Minister Ehud Barak denied having received any warning of any sort.
Israel has long been expected to use a route through Saudi Arabia for its attack on Iran, and would have a much more difficult time without it, though Iraq’s lack of air defenses could allow have them trying to go that route, and their close relationship with Azerbaijan could make the northern route another possibility.
Israel will have more than the Saudis to worry about if they attack Bushehr Nuclear Power Station that is run by the Russians who have warned Israel of dire consequences if any Russian citizen is killed or injured!
Russia, gave the President of Russia extraordinary powers in the event that any Russians were killed by a foreign power, NOT unlike the AUMF that Bush received. One only has to look at the slap Georgia received, four years ago!
Although Israel runs by an elite of stupid, a non democratic, fascism apartheid regime and a religious sect based on Zionists ideology.., yet I want see their military action attacking Iran, not only empty words coming out of these people mouth, as some said it before me, I double triple dog dare you bibi to start the war with Iran even if Saudis will use their Israeli made blindfolded curtain in king Abdullah house. Even if Turkish government the slave of Saudis and NATO will close their already blind eyes, I triple dog dare Israel attacking Iran, then you will see the end of the world, rising flames all over the middle east, a closed persian gulf, not because of the war which automatically will close the Hormuz but because of the west insurance companies not wanting to in sue any ships going in or out of persian gulf. You either out of your mind even thinking about going to war with Iran or you are out of your mind all together.
Saudies should not be trusted, being "in bed" with Zionist Israel, they became liers and deceivers like their "friends". Fearing regime change in their country, who knows what these "traitors to Islam" would decide….. "Drunk with power for so long!, swimming in ocean of money" – these criminals would fight to the very end, even if they have to sell half of the country to Israel…peter czech
I met a Saudi citizen in Europe on the day after the Israeli attack on the Osirak reactor in June of 1981, and his reaction was to blame not the Israelis, but his own government. The impunity with which the Israelis overflew Saudi airspace in the Osirak attack was a national embarrassment to the Saudis, and it's likely that a significant part of their massive spending on defense over the past thirty years has been intended to prevent a recurrence.
It's just so demonstrative of the lunacy of the situation: the Israelis are struggling to go to war with a country that is so far away not only do they not have a common border, and so can't fight a land war; they can't even get to it to fight an air war.
Maybe they should just leave them alone.
They won't have to fight any war. They will just start it and then as usual wil let it's slave,US, do the actual fighting.
Not on our watch!
LMAO… Does anybody actually believe the Saudis? The Saudis will do what the US tells them to do.
Israel wil attack Iran by using missles lunched from German made subs. They only need to start the war, they know America will be drawn in to do the real fighting and bleeding in blood and money.
Israel's planes will be used to carpet bomb southern Lebanon using bunker buster bombs, in preperation to occupying and colonizing. (read part time Israel PM and full time terrorist M. Begin's 1950's autobiograph)
The Saudis aren't going to make a decision like that unless their colonial masters in Washington tell them to.