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As I said why is the USA still acting buddy buddy with Saudi arabia and supplying them with the best and latest in arms?
The Soviet Union did not provide extensive support to Iran during the Iran–Iraq War, not surprisingly given its massive assistance to Iraq, the mutual antagonism between Marxist-Leninist ideology and the Islamist government of Iran, and Muslim antagonism to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Nevertheless, the Soviets hoped not to lose all influence. As a 1980 CIA document put it, "
...while hoping to prevent an Iranian turn to the West and to improve their own relations with Tehran", the Soviets also value their ties with Iraq.[1
The Soviets see Iran as a greater geopolitical prize than Iraq
Swills
reply to post by neo96
I thought the Saudi's were buying nukes from Pakistan so why bother with a nuke program when you have all the money in the world?
Israel, which is an aggressor nation, has 400+ nukes and the US is attacking one nation after another.
As a matter of fact, the US is the only nation in the world to actually have used both nuclear and chemical weapons, against civilian populations no less.
Although, Saudi Arabia seems to be a puppet of the US and Israel so I'm not sure whats going on.
MysterX
reply to post by TDawg61
Can you provide reliable sources for what you claim about Iran please?
And if they did threaten to attack those countries, in what context was the threat made?
i.e. If Iran is attacked by a US coalition, from those countries that have US bases?
If so, that is a completely justifiable position wouldn't you say?
Put it this way, if the US was attacked by X country, using forces based in X's friendly countries, those then become completely legitamate targets for the US to retaliate against in order to prevent further attacks on the US from those bases, obviously.
Please provide the source and the context if you don't mind, thanks.
edit on 14-2-2014 by MysterX because: (no reason given)
matafuchs
and people wonder why that little sliver called Israel has some...
TDawg61
matafuchs
and people wonder why that little sliver called Israel has some...
Because maybe their surrounded by millions of Arabs who swore they'd kill every Jew in Israel for starters.As if people wouldn't take the same course in their position.
And having nukes HAVE kept Arab hordes in check since 1973 and COULD have easily dropped them during that war.
crazyewok
Of course the best bet is the USA withdraws and leaves the ME quarentines it and leaves them to carry on killing each other.