Wary silence from Arabs over Iran deal

Reuters ^ | November 24, 2013 | by Erika Solomon in Beirut

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Iran's nuclear deal with global powers was met with wary silence from Arab states on Sunday, with Iran's only two Arab friends Iraq and Syria welcoming the accord but others keeping their opinions to themselves.

"I am afraid Iran will give up something on to get something else from the big powers in terms of regional politics. And I'm worrying about giving Iran more space or a freer hand in the region," said Abdullah al-Askar, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Saudi Arabia's appointed Shoura Council, a quasi-parliament that advises the government on policy.

"The government of Iran, month after month, has proven that it has an ugly agenda in the region, and in this regard no one in the region will sleep and assume things are going smoothly," Askar said.

The Syrian government of Assad, a long-term ally of Iran and a member of the Alawite sect that is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, was pleased.

[FES0844]

“Peace, peace & then the end will come.”
Prayers for Israel.

[ronnie raygun]

So the regime who is in control of America has given the green light to the caliphate

[central_va]

I find myself agreeing with the Saudi’s on foreign policy towards Iran?! Wait, what?

[MestaMachine]

“Iran’s only two Arab friends Iraq and Syria”

Not Quite. Syria and Iraq might be full of arabs, but they are not arab states. They are islamic states, but Assyrians and Persians are not arabs. And they don’t like arabs much.

[KeyLargo]

November 24, 2013 Sunday jpost

Obama to call Netanyahu to 'assuage Israeli concerns' regarding Iran deal

By JPOST.COM STAFF 24/11/2013

Administration 'understands' Israel's skepticism; Republicans also express concern.

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama said on Saturday a deal between Iran and world powers was a big step toward a comprehensive solution on Tehran's nuclear program as he tried to win over critics in the US Congress and Israel.

A senior US official said Obama planned to call Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday to try to assuage Israeli concerns about the agreement.

Republican Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he had serious concerns that the agreement did not meet the standards necessary to protect the United States.

"Instead of rolling back Iran's program, Tehran would be able to keep the key elements of its nuclear weapons-making capability," he said.

Via: http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=332801

[bert]

The fallacy is that Obama has no credibility. Nobody believes him

[erlayman]

If the Sunni states are more worried about Iran than Israel it really means they are concerned that their own Islamic militancy and related terrorist activities will be curtailed.

[Iron Munro]

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Once upon a time in our history, Americans were known for being shrewd and hard to get the best of in a deal.

[lbryce]

The reason is obvious. They’re scared shyt-less, or you might Shi’ite-less. Shi’ite, which makes up only about 15% of Islam of which Iran is the protector and vanguard of, and Sunni which comprise 85%, have had a bitter enmity towards each other since the days of Muhammad. And their belief in the “hidden” Imam, the 12th Imam, whom Iranians fervently await, one who will arrive only when an act of ultimate Jihad is propagated such as a nuclear attack on Israel, Saudi Arabia, has them all quaking in their boots at the very prospect. We managed to outdo the Soviets, only because, as atheists, they too, wanted to live on this Earth for as long as they could. While, Iran, believes the next world is what they live, yearn for. And so death has much less meaning for them, would facilitate a nuclear war in the belief they will reap the benefits of in Allah’s favor. Iran has already spoken of nuking the Saudi oil fields as prelude to the 12th Imam.

[KeyLargo]

Newsmax

Iran Gets $4.2 Billion in Last Minute Deal on Nukes
Saturday, November 23, 2013 05:02 PM

By: Newsmax Wires

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who has been coordinating talks with Iran on behalf of the major powers, said it created time and space for talks aimed at reaching a comprehensive solution to the dispute.

“This is only a first step,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told a news conference. “We need to start moving in the direction of restoring confidence, a direction in which we have managed to move against in the past.”

In Washington, President Barack Obama said that if Iran did not meet its commitments during a six-month period, the United States would turn off sanctions relief and “ratchet up the pressure.”

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government denounced the agreement as “a bad deal” that Israel did not regard itself as bound by.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Iran-nuclear-politics-Kerry/2013/11/23/id/538293

[Texas resident]

Iran now has three friends.
Iraq, Syria and Obama.

[logic101.net]

On Friday a radio host I was listening to kept saying that Obama’s biggest failure was the economy. I was yelling at the radio over this. His biggest failure is world affairs. A bad economy kills far fewer people than a crazy regime with nukes!

[bert]

If you review recent history, there was no real estimated final date for Iran getting the bomb. Even in the Bush days there were reports of imminent bomb capability, with in perhaps a year or two . Here we are 5 years into an ineffective Obama pacifist wacko regime and still no bomb?

Why?

Well, there was stuxnet. There were multiple scientist assassinations. There were several big explosions of military stuff. There is probability of other disruptions about which we know nothing.

In short, somebody or some groups of sombodies have effectively made serious disruptions in the bomb making processes. The Mullahs efforts have been defeated, not by bombs from above but from sabotage within.

The unknown is ..... can these clandestine efforts continue to be effective? and, who done it?

[SunkenCiv]

AKA “playing them close to the vest.” Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.

War is inevitable now.

Syria hails ‘historic’ Iran nuclear accord
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3094966/posts

[GOPJ]

Prayers for Israel... prayers for Netanyahu...

[MasterGunner01]

The fascination with nuclear weapons by Iran for use against their enemies (read: Jews [Israel] and Sunni Muslims [Saudi Arabia]) has got to have the Arab Gulf states VERY worried. They are not suicidal, but the Iranian Shi’ites [called “Twelvers” after their belief in the 12th Imam] are suicidal. In this respect, the Iranians resemble the WW2 Japanese and their suicide tactics, notably the kamikaze.

The kamikaze (for “divine wind”) usually came in the form of an aircraft with a 500 kg bomb whose pilot was on a one way trip to sink a US Navy ship. The Gulf Arabs and Israel are thus in conflict with Iran similar to the USN in the late stages of the Pacific War [from the TV series “Victory at Sea”]: “Now it begins, the fight between gunners fighting to live and pilots wanting to die. The sailors serve up a wall of anti-aircraft fire as impenetrable as they can make it.”