“Wouldn’t be surprising at all if France was willing to help Ben shut down the Mullah’s nuke hobby shop.”
I’d be shocked. They’d have universal riots in France. Hundreds would die. Also, they don’t have the logistics and nobody can loan them the tankers they’d need to fly any distance; as Obama won’t. Also, they’d have to pass by plenty of Obama controlled space coming and going.
Nope, we’re going to have to rely on Saudi Arabia’s self interest here. I don’t know if they’re up for it and the attempt may cause their (I think) fragile regime to collapse under its own weight.
Oh, let’s not forget the wildcard sitting on the boarder; Turkey.
The house of Saud is buying nukes from Pakistan. The expect us to support Iran