Former Editor of Al Arabiya English Bashes the Democrat Iran Deal
“When President Barack Obama negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran, we Saudis understood him to be seeking the breakup of a 70-year marriage.”
I almost wrote ‘America’s Iran Deal’ in the title, but this definitely deserves to be called a Democrat deal. They are the only ones who want it.
Mohammed Alyahyla writes at the Jerusalem Post:
America is dismantling the pillars of its own empire – Saudi editor to ‘Post’
The Saudi-US relationship is in the throes of a crisis. As a Saudi who went to college in the US, loves America and wants to see it strong, I am increasingly disturbed by the unreality of the American discussion about the subject, which often fails to acknowledge just how deep and serious the rift has grown.
A more realistic discussion should focus on one word: “Divorce.” When President Barack Obama negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran, we Saudis understood him to be seeking the breakup of a 70-year marriage.
How could we not? After all, the flaws in the deal are well known. It paves a path for Iran to a nuclear bomb. It fills the war chest of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has spread militias across the Arab world armed with precision-guided munitions to maim and kill people who formerly looked to America to help guarantee their safety.
This past weekend, Secretary of State Antony Blinken joined a conference in the Negev, hosted by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and attended by a number of Arab foreign ministers. Blinken used this occasion to paper over the rift that the nuclear deal has created by presenting an image of regional solidarity, but the region is not deceived.
Sold disingenuously to the American public as an arms control agreement, the deal is an assault on the regional order that the United States established in the aftermath of World War II. Explicitly hostile to Saudi Arabia, to say nothing of America’s other greatest ally in the region, Israel, the deal replaces the former American-led regional security structure with a concert system in which Iran, backed by Russia and China, becomes America’s new subcontractor while America’s former allies—the Gulf States and Israel— are demoted to second-tier status.
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I’ve never really understood America’s “70-year marriage” with the repressive Saudis, nor do I fully understand the ramifications of a “divorce.” Surely it isn’t because of their oil, because I never once remember them throwing the USA a bone when we were hurting for it.
I more suspect that whatever arrangement we actually had with the Wahabis in Saudi will prove to be on a par with whatever arrangement we actually had with the Nazis in Ukraine.