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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

"US envisions NATO of the Gulf"

from rt.com....


"Since leaked US diplomatic cables published in 2010 by WikiLeaks revealed that Saudi King Abdullah has "frequently exhorted the US to attack Iran to put an end to its nuclear weapons program," calls to invade Iran have only intensified among US hawks.  

In the same vein, Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to Washington and would-be victim of the highly implausible Iranian assassination plot, went on to tell General David Petraeus in April 2008 that King Abdullah wanted to "cut off the head of the snake," as cited by Reuters.  
However, as the United States moves towards integrating the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council into a security alliance that would increase both US and Saudi domination in the region, Iran could very well find itself the next victim of a US-led “humanitarian intervention”.....READ MORE

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