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BBC: Saudi FM al-Faisal doubts Iran sanctions
BBC News ^ | February 16, 2010

Posted on 02/15/2010 5:18:03 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Imposing more sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme would not be a quick enough solution, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister has said.

Prince Saud al-Faisal said the threat posed by Iran demanded a "more immediate solution" than sanctions.

He spoke in Riyadh alongside US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who earlier said Iran was "becoming a military dictatorship".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hillaryclinton; iran; israel; madmullahs; nukes; saudiarabia; saudiarabian; saudis

1 posted on 02/15/2010 5:18:03 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Nachum; Yehuda; SJackson; SunkenCiv; Moe Tzadik; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; jhpigott; sonofstrangelove; ...
Hmmmmmmmm...

How do read this, coming from the Saudis, no less??

2 posted on 02/15/2010 5:20:32 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: hennie pennie

The Saudi’s are directly threatened here. They want the wack jobs in Iran dealt with. Lots of fear.


3 posted on 02/15/2010 5:22:08 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OK Princie-poo GO FOR IT.


4 posted on 02/15/2010 5:24:20 PM PST by exnavy (May the Lord grant our troops protection and endurance.)
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To: hennie pennie

Then there is this......

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451927/posts

A war is coming.....soon


5 posted on 02/15/2010 5:27:00 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Tax the poor. Taxes will give them a stake in society)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OK..Go for it Prince.


6 posted on 02/15/2010 5:27:09 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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To: Nachum
I just love seeing the Saudis put in a potential positiion where they'll have to rely upon ISRAEL for their safety.

Why is Bibi still in RUSSIA -- is Putin going to let the IDF attack the Iranian nuclear facilities using Russian bases & Russian airspace???

LOL -- LOL -- LOL

7 posted on 02/15/2010 5:28:18 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: bert

Thank YOU so very much - I’d missed that one entirely; goodness gracious, that Hillary is one busy lady, isn’t she?


8 posted on 02/15/2010 5:31:44 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow “More immediate solutions” - does that mean - Israel, go ahead, we will complain but not too loudly.


9 posted on 02/15/2010 5:41:49 PM PST by Jolla
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To: hennie pennie

....”No Less”. The Saudis have never agreed with Iran.
Please remember that the Arabs do not consider the Persians
as Arabs. (Also the Persians do not speak Arabic.)
The Saudi maps show the “Arabian Gulf” while the Iranian
maps show “Iranian Gulf”. Long time conflict there.


10 posted on 02/15/2010 5:55:45 PM PST by TaMoDee
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Thanks hennie pennie.
...would not be a quick enough solution, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister has said. Prince Saud al-Faisal said the threat posed by Iran demanded a "more immediate solution" than sanctions.
It'll be fun to watch the Saudi regime -- what Ariel Sharon referred to as "those 3000 corrupt princes" -- tear at each other's throats, while US armed forces are deployed to protect the oil fields (mostly serviced by either Arabian Shi'ites or foreign nationals, BTW) and pipelines (the Saudis threw a pipeline all the way across the Empty Quarter as a consequence of the Iran-Iraq war, so they could also ship out of the west side instead of through the Straits of Hormuz), once the Iranians start the real deal in the Kingdom.

And, after it starts, we'll soon be rid of all the bastards.
11 posted on 02/15/2010 6:18:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: TaMoDee
My "no less" did not refer to Persia/Saudi Arabia, but rather to Saudi Arabia and ISRAEL.

LOL

Last summer some website, MAYBE Debka had a story that Mossad told the Israeli Government that Saudi Arabia would offer airspace to the IDF if they'd take out the Iranian nuclear facilities.

I realize that the Persians speak Farsi and are NOT Arabs. I also realize that the Saudis are not the Greatest Admirers of Israel. LOL

12 posted on 02/15/2010 6:26:56 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: hennie pennie

Thanks for clarifying your post.


13 posted on 02/15/2010 6:44:16 PM PST by TaMoDee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In this one instance, the Saudis are right.

Sanctions are just a way for Obama to pretend he is taking strong action against Iran, when in actuality, he is doing little or nothing. Hillary Clinton told the Iranians today that military action is not being contemplated against Iran.

China has promised to break any trade embargo against the Iranians.

Sanctions will do nothing except give the Mullahs in Iran the time and space they need to further develop the nuclear bomb and the missiles needed to deliver them.


14 posted on 02/15/2010 7:56:15 PM PST by AlanD
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To: hennie pennie

The Satan rim-jobbing Saudis are scared snotless over Iran.

They lack a military to play Capture the Flag...and since they OWN us along with the ChiComs, the whole 9/11 and jihad thing is forgiven.

We have thousands of OUR military in their sh*twipe country protecting THEIR oilfields.

If the US finally DOES go, it won’t be for Israel or even the US, but on the KSA’s orders.


15 posted on 02/15/2010 8:30:25 PM PST by Moe Tzadik
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