Sunday, November 28, 2010

Wikileaks documents: Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme

• Embassy cables show Arab allies want strike against Tehran
• Israel prepared to attack alone to avoid its own 9/11
• Iranian bomb risks 'Middle East proliferation, war or both'
Nuclear energy campaigners in Iran
Embassy cables reveal the US, Israel and Arab states suspect Iran is close to acquiring nuclear weapons despite Tehran's insistence that its programme is designed to supply energy. Photograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear programme, according to leaked US diplomatic cables that describe how other Arab allies have secretly agitated for military action against Tehran.

The revelations, in secret memos from US embassies across the Middle East, expose behind-the-scenes pressures in the scramble to contain the Islamic Republic, which the US, Arab states and Israel suspect is close to acquiring nuclear weapons. Bombing Iranian nuclear facilities has hitherto been viewed as a desperate last resort that could ignite a far wider war.

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  1. revolucionstreetNovember 28, 2010 at 6:41 PM

    <span>Saudi Arabia is the only country that has not fought any war with Israel. Egypt did, Syria did, even Iraq that has no borders with Israel did, but these filthy Saudi bastards are the only ones that did not. Soon these American imposed traitors will be massacred and their beheaded bodies will be sent to the Zionist Jewish regime where they belong.<span>  </span></span>

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