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To: edpc

In other words Iran threatens everybody.

They threaten their Arab neighbors now.

I wonder if these neighbors realise they will be coming under Irans heel if they get their bomb?


4 posted on 01/15/2012 6:17:02 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Venturer
They're painfully aware of it. From this past summer....

A senior Saudi Arabian diplomat and member of the ruling royal family has raised the spectre of nuclear conflict in the Middle East if Iran comes close to developing a nuclear weapon.

Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to Washington, warned senior Nato military officials that the existence of such a device "would compel Saudi Arabia … to pursue policies which could lead to untold and possibly dramatic consequences".

He did not state explicitly what these policies would be, but a senior official in Riyadh who is close to the prince said yesterday his message was clear.

"We cannot live in a situation where Iran has nuclear weapons and we don't. It's as simple as that," the official said. "If Iran develops a nuclear weapon, that will be unacceptable to us and we will have to follow suit."

Add this to the Shia unrest and Saudi intervention in Bahrain. Throw in an Iranian plan to assassinate a Saudi diplomat. A very volatile relationship.

7 posted on 01/15/2012 6:27:55 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2012)
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To: Venturer
I wonder if these neighbors realise they will be coming under Irans heel if they get their bomb?

With all the speculation as to who took out the latest nuclear scientist, I thought it was interesting that a good case can be made for the Saudis.

12 posted on 01/15/2012 7:17:42 AM PST by MissMagnolia (ObamaCare side effects: headache,delayed treatment, 0 choice,sky-rocketing taxes & premature death)
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