Report: Saudis, US sponsoring covert action against Iran

The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United States are working with other states in the Middle East to sponsor covert action against Iran, according to a report in this month's edition of The Atlantic. The report also suggests that covert attacks may occur against Iran's oil sector.

David Samuels, in a lengthy article on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East, reports that the US is promoting a campaign against Iran that includes covert action.

Last fall, he writes, "Rice and her colleagues in the administration decided to embark on a daring and risky third course: a coordinated campaign, directed with the help of the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates....The bill for the covert part of this activity, which has involved funding sectarian political movements and paramilitary groups in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories, is said to amount to more than $300 million. It is being paid by Saudi Arabia and other concerned Gulf states, for whom the combination of a hasty American withdrawal from Iraq and a nuclear-armed Iran means trouble."

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The cozy relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US government continues, gotta love the Saudis. Able to have direct involvement in 9/11 and suffer absolutely no backlash whatsoever and then imply that the US involvement in Iraq is counter-productive. No huge surprise here that the US government has its grubby paws all over these covert operations but if the article is true it is even more disturbing. Funding paramilitary groups in Lebanon & Palestinian territories. Hold on a second I thought they were classified as being the enemy this can't be. I don't question putting the heat on Iran but when you back known terrorists, such as the Saudis, your motives are questionable.

brill