Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, rejected Saudi Arabia’s accusations of aggression. “Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi … rejected the baseless accusations by the heads of certain Arab countries … and said: ‘We see the Saudi effort to mobilize [regional] opinion as part of the hopeless process followed by America and the Zionist regime against Iran’,” Iranian state news reported on Friday.
On Thursday, Saudi King Salman said his country and others in the region have failed to stand firm against Iran, resulting in “naked aggression,” from Iran. Salman called for the Arab world to confront Iran with “all means of force and firmness.”
Iran has been denying many claims of aggression from US leaders, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton both recently accused Iran of sabotaging four oil tankers in the region. There is still no evidence linking Iran to the attack.
Dave DeCamp is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn NY, focusing on US Foreign policy and wars. He is on Twitter at @decampdave.
Salman called for the Arab world to confront Iran with “all means of force and firmness the US can muster.”
FTFY.
The US won’t get involved, militarily, sorry.
It’s obvious (to anyone paying attention)
that Trump doesn’t follow the Clinton, Bush, 0bama reflex to serve the military/industrial/complex.
Ain’t happening.
He will let the antagonists duke it out on their own,
only allowing material support to those supporting US interests.
Smart, for a change.
I didn’t say the US military would get involved although they are flooding the region with assets including troops. But if anyone is going to confront Iran militarily, they won’t do it without the US being part of it. So I stand by my FIFY.
Trump is already feeding the MIC just like his predecessors. Do you think these proxy wars all over the place are being waged without US weapons? The MIC and the $750 billion dollar “defense” budget are doing just fine under Trump.
Then we agree, Trump is too smart to get into another ground war with US troops, and yes he is using military assets to leverage US interests in the region. Again smart, with limited downside.
Further, everybody their has a “proxy” in the region, the Saudis, Iranians, Turks, Russians, Syrians and Euros. So condemn them all if you want but condemning just the US revels your personal animus for all things US.
Where we disagree, I believe the US should protect it’s interests
while you believe
staying home under the bed is more effective.
Stick to the subject. I said no one in the region will confront Iran militarily without the US being involved. So no, we don’t agree.
Again, stick to the subject. I didn’t say anything about who has proxies in the region. My comment was about Trump feeding the MIC like his predecessors.
The US interests involve the entire planet. Of course, neocons like yourself think that is “smart” with “limited downside”.
We agree,
no one will confront Iran without US backup, that’s leverage.
And predictable.
Everybody has “proxies” feeding their respective MIC, more agreement.
But in your bias world it is ONLY the US you condemn.
The Euros, Russians and Chinese have interests that
involve the entire planet.
Are they “neocons” or pragmatists?
No we don’t. I said no one will confront Iran “militarily” without US involvement. Let me know when one of Iran’s neighbors gets the balls to fight a war with Iran without a coalition involving the US.
The US spends more on their spooks than Iran spends on their entire defense. Don’t even try to equate them, or any other country on the planet, with us and our bloated defense budget. When they approach what we do, I’ll condemn them equally.
Do the Euros, Russians or Chinese have 800 bases spread across the planet along with a $750 billion defense budget and currently dropping bombs in multiple countries? Only neocons would think anything we do could be called pragmatic.
My so cantankerous today, no neighbor will challenge Iran without US support, but they don’t need US troops, just arms, intell and training,
like we gave the Kurds to eliminate the ISIS caliphate.
More deflection, while I agree that US Defense spending should be cut,
that fact does not diminish the challenge posed by Russia, the Euros and Chinese. Your millennial bubble is showing again.
The Russians and Chinese are attempting to do just that.
To ignore them is beyond naive.
“just arms, intel and training” Jeez, is that all. Not much of a war without those minor details.
The euros depend on us for their defense. Russia and China’s combined defense spending doesn’t approach ours. And again, we spend more on our spooks than Iran does on their military. But continue to ignore all those pesky facts. It’s the neocon way.
“The Russians and Chinese are attempting to do just that.”
Indeed they are. But let’s characterize that correctly, or should I say “sanely”. The Russians and Chinese are trying to build a rational, orderly post-cold war global order. While the US continues with a suicidal global hegemon, world domination approach, implanted in a subverted US by the MIC-, Neoliberal-, Neocon-, and Zionist-special interest foreign policy “brain cancer”.
The US is in terminal decline, and the “Rah! Rah! USA!” Kool-Aid to which you are addicted is well past its “sell-by” date. Time for you to “rehab”.
There was nothing “sane about that.
Do you approve of China’s
Orwellian social-credits control over their population?
Yes or no.
Because as soon as they can, you will be under it!
None of my business, or yours.
Mr. Stokr Hammerstein, while I would love to see a war between the Iranians and the Saudis, evidence from lack of military experience shows that U.S will not jeopardize the Saudi position in the Middle East. So says Mr. Stewart.
This is all part of the script that would soften us up for the next war, which would, of course, be justified by “US interests” being threatened, when in reality, what’s good for Israel is the only thing that determines US foreign policy.
More like “what’s good for Netanyahu” than “what’s good for Israel,” but a fair point.
MBS like Trump is just taking his cues from the “leader of the free world”.
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