Saudi's Bandar blasts Iran nuke deal
In a column published by the London-based Arabic news website
Elaph, Saudi Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, a former intelligence chief and Ambassador to the United States, has blasted President Hussein Obama's sellout to Iran, claiming it will '
wreak havoc' in the Middle East.
“Serious pundits in the media and in politics say that President
Obama’s Iran deal is ‘déjà vu’ in relation to President Clinton’s North
Korean nuclear deal.”
President Clinton’s decision was based on
strategic foreign policy analysts, top secret national intelligence, and
the desire “to save the people of North Korea from starvation,” wrote
Prince Bandar, in reference to the 1994 “Agreed Framework” between North
Korea and the United States that aimed to freeze the country’s nuclear
power program.
The agreement finally broke down in 2003 when
North Korea announced its withdrawal from the international Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and later declared it had manufactured
nuclear weapons. The country now has as many as 20 nuclear warheads,
according to Chinese intelligence.
President
Clinton “would not have made that decision” had he known it was based
on “a major intelligence failure” and “wrong foreign policy analysis,”
wrote Prince Bandar, nephew of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz.
But
“President Obama made his decision to go ahead with the Iran nuclear
deal fully aware that the strategic foreign policy analysis, the
national intelligence information, and America’s allies in the region’s
intelligence all predict not only the same outcome of the North Korean
nuclear deal but worse - with the billions of dollars that Iran will
have access to,” Prince Bandar stated.
“It will wreak havoc in
the Middle East which is already living in a disastrous environment, in
which Iran is a major player in the destabilization of the region,” he
continued.
Why would Obama go ahead with such an agreement,
“knowing what President Clinton didn’t know when he made his deal with
North Korea?” questioned the former diplomat.
It’s because Obama “ideologically believes what he is doing is right,” said Prince Bandar.
Yes, that's precisely right. Things sure have changed since Obama bowed to the Saudis in 2009.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Bill Clinton, Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iranian nuclear threat, North Korea, nuclear weapons, P 5+1, Prince Bandar al-Sultan
Report: Saudi intelligence chief meets with Israeli counterpart... and with J Street?
Take this with a grain of salt, because the source is Iranian, but Iran's FARS News is reporting that Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar al-Sultan
met in Geneva last month with his Israeli counterpart. From there, it gets comical.
Mujtahid, a whistleblower who is well connected with the inner circles
of the Saudi secret service, revealed through his twitter account that
Prince Bandar has met his Israeli counterpart and several other
high-ranking Israeli officials in Geneva on November 27.
He said that Prince Bandar and Israeli officials have agreed on a
number of crucial issues, including “containing Iran by any possible
means, exercising stronger control over Syria’s Jihadist forces,
sidelining Muslim Brotherhood and stopping the waves of the Arab
spring".
Different sources had told FNA in September that Prince Bandar’s envoy
had been in Geneva to explore ways of enticing the world powers into
war on Syria in a series of meeting with the executive director of a
very influential Zionist lobby.
"The latest meeting between Riyadh al-Tamimi and Jeremy Ben-Ami, the
executive of J Street lobby, was held in Geneva on August 20, during
which the two sides discussed the latest developments in Syria, ways to
strengthen militants fighting against President Bashar al-Assad and
proper methods of persuading the US officials to wage a war against
Syria," an informed Saudi source present in most of the meetings told
FNA in September.
J Street - the main Jewish opponent to sanctions against Iran - is trying to get the US to wage war on Syria? You've got to be smoking something....
J Street, a US Jewish lobby is widely thought to be American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)’s rival. J Street Director Jeremy
Ben-Ami has announced that as a pro-Israel lobby the group works for
Israel’s benefit and has underlined its commitment to Israel.
And the Iranians are dumb enough to believe that?
The source, who asked to remain unnamed due to the sensitivity of his
information, also said that like the Saudi officials, specially Prince
Bandar, J Street has made use of all its possibilities and potentials in
recent months to coax the US political and military officials into
limited military operations against Syria's sensitive and vital regions.
I can think of some other reasons that the source might want to remain unnamed....
And from the 'make sure you get this into Google Cache before they can take it down department, the JPost is actually
carrying this as a credible story, leaving out the parts about J Street. Of course the Post is using the Sunday Times of London as its 'credible' source....
According to a report in The Sunday Times from last month, Riyadh gave its consent for Israel to use Saudi airspace for a potential attack on Iran.
The Times report came out before the nuclear deal between Iran and the world powers was reached. Both Jerusalem and Riyadh expressed displeasure at the deal being formulated.
The
paper quoted a diplomatic source as saying the Saudis were willing to
assist an Israeli attack by cooperating on the use of drones, rescue
helicopters and tanker planes.
“Once the Geneva agreement is
signed, the military option will be back on the table. The Saudis are
furious and are willing to give Israel all the help it needs,” the Times quoted the source as saying.
If you're dumb enough to use the
Sunday Times of London as a
credible source on anything having to do with
Israel, you deserve what you get. Anyone want to take bets on how long this story stays up at the JPost site?
Labels: Iranian nuclear threat, J Street, Mossad, our friends the Saudis, Prince Bandar al-Sultan, Syria, Times of London, Uzi Mahnaimi
