Saudi intelligence source confirms reporting that crown prince has urged Trump to ramp up ‘historic opportunity’ to remake Middle East – key US politics stories from Friday 27 March at a glance
Saudi Arabia has urged the US to ramp up attacks on Iran, a Saudi intelligence source has confirmed, as it decides whether to join the fight directly.
The Saudi source confirmed reporting in the New York Times that said the kingdom’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has urged Donald Trump not to cut short his war against Iran, and that the US-Israeli campaign represented a “historic opportunity” to remake the Middle East.
The intelligence source said Riyadh was not just calling for the military campaign to be continued, but to be intensified. Trump appeared to confirm the report about the crown prince’s role, telling journalists on Tuesday: “Yeah, he’s a warrior. He’s fighting with us.”
Saudi Arabia and Iran, claiming leadership roles of the Sunni and Shia Islamic worlds respectively, have long been regional rivals. According to a leaked US state department cable, the crown prince’s paternal uncle King Abdullah urged the US military in 2008 to “cut off the head of the snake”, a reference to the theocratic regime in Tehran.
I am on my phone as well it’s nothing special. I can still do formatted thoughts just fine.
Also there’s no indifference here except again perhaps projection on your part. US troops should all return home right now and spend their time better. By killing Trump and everyone who’s volunteered for or funding his administration. My sympathies and desires lie with the people not the governments.
By all means though. Please make your case as to why I should be more concerned with who is allowed to kill the Iranian people more than, maybe the Iranian people shouldn’t be killed. But don’t think the morose hilarity of the situation. Where the awful candidate directly supported by Iran’s ally Russia, stupidly flails against the government they indirectly created. This whole situation legitimately needs It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia theme music. The one and only thing that makes the Iranian government even slightly morally Superior in this instance is that they are the Homegrown killers. They will be there to kill their people long after Trump and the fascists get bored. Which they will. It’s almost like none of these assholes should be meddling in or sabotaging the government of others. Regardless of who started it.