Speaking on Thursday at an emergency Arab summit, Saudi King Salman claimed that his nation and others in the Arab world had failed to stand firm against Iran, and that the result had been “naked aggression” by the Iranians.
The king mostly tried to echo the narrative of US hawks on Iran, trying
to attribute things like recent drone attacks that came from Yemen to
the Iranian government, trying to present the Saudis as minding their
own business and the Iranians threatening international security. Salman
then called for the Arab world to confront Iran “with all means of
force and firmness.”
Despite this attempted narrative from the king, the Saudis have been
hostile toward Iran for several decades, and his own son, Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman, has been driving pushes for US-led military action
against Iran.
Indeed, the Saudis spend vastly more on their military than Iran ever
has, and has been buying US arms for many years with the idea that they
might be used in a major war with Iran. The king is just echoing the
talking points of US hawks in suggesting otherwise.
He knows all about “clothed aggression”. Kashoggi.
Bolton, Pompeo and the king have the same speech writer.
The tar pit calling the pot black ..
The only thing naked was Khassagi (sic) when they fed him to the acid tanks.
Looks like the Saudi king is replacing Blair as our poodle.
King to US — go for it, we and our mistly mercenary army, bigged down in Yemen, are right behind you! Riyadh knows Iran can retaliate, and that Trump is a bit too hasty in declaring the end of Iran. So, King is repeating US narrative. The same king thar we, our neocon media, tried to declare demented and suffering from Alzheimers. Saudis are buying weapons fir themselves, not to defend us.
Somehow, I feel a trap. What was the response by others attending? Kuwait, with 40% of Shia population? Oman and Qatar with goid relations with Iran? UAE and Bahrain not wirth mentioning, a bunch of cities in the desert?
Would you believe a King that wetrued to remove by ridiculing him,, so that our iwn, FBI raised Moihammed bin Nayaf,,then Crown Prince, would come to the throne? Would you believe a King that survived by convincing tge Allegiance Council to depose Criwn Prince and appoint his son — over vicious objections from Washington. Would you believe a King,?whise son was then deagged through mud, blamed by Congress and entire Western for murdering Kashoggi? When the message to Kingdom was, we cannit and will not work with him, replace him. And King and NBS got even stringer support from the Council. Would you believe a King who took a 2000 strong delegatiin to Moscow, following the court coup in July 2017? And Crown Prince that visited Moscow more then all other trips combined? A Kingdom that without Russia participating in oil price stability would be ecknomically ruined, as US imports less then 9% if oil from the Kingdom? The Kingdom that depends on China for its sales? The Kungdom that knows that US can blick sea routes to China and back by clisung the Straits of Hirmuz and Bab Al-Mandeb? And the only way to Asian market is vua Iran, Turkmenistan or Kazakhstan? We are obsessed with physical, geographic controks, and will eventually lose as ut is not sustainable.
With allies in the region like these repressive hereditary monarchs and our friends the apartheid regime, who needs enemies? Oh yes, the MIC.