Saudi Arabian State Media Urges U.S. To 'Hit Iran Hard' With Punitive Airstrikes

[babylonsister]

So are we taking marching orders from SA now?


May 16, 2019, 02:08pm
Saudi Arabian State Media Urges U.S. To 'Hit Iran Hard' With Punitive Airstrikes
Zak Doffman


Iran sees the escalating tensions with the U.S. as extending to include Saudi Arabia and Israel. And on Thursday, an editorial in Saudi Arabia's Arab News demanded: "Iran must not go unpunished... In [our] considered view, there has to be deterrent and punitive action in order for Iran to know that no sinister act will go unpunished; that action, in our opinion, should be a calculated surgical strike."

A day earlier, the head of Iran's IRGC claimed the country is "on the cusp of a full-scale confrontation with the enemy. This moment in history, because the enemy has stepped into the field of confrontation with us with all the possible capacity, is the most decisive moment of the Islamic revolution." Hossein Salami has previously threatened the "triangle" of the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Israel, and in 2015 said that Iran "would welcome" war with the United States.

"Riyadh has constantly warned world leaders of the dangers Iran poses," Arab News said in its editorial, "not only to Saudi Arabia and the region but to the entire world. The time has come for Iran not only to curb its nuclear weapon ambitions - again in the world’s interest - but also for the world to ensure they do not have the means to support their terror networks across the region."

The Saudi newspaper claims that the drone attacks on Tuesday and the attack on four oil tankers off the coast of the UAE at the weekend "represents a serious escalation on the part of Iran and its proxies, should the initial conclusions of an international investigation prove to be accurate."


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[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility

[watoos]

2. Trump better do it

or the Saudis aren't going to rent out space in his hotels and towers.

The Houthis and Saudis have been at war for years, this is nothing new.

[Retrograde]

11. And the Sunnis and Shi'ites have been at it for centuries

IMHO, this is one of the real reasons behind the Saudi saber-rattling: Iranis mostly don't practice the same form of Islam as they do.

[maxsolomon]

3. Do it yourself, warmongers

you have the weapons.

[uponit7771]

4. +1

[Downtown Hound]

5. Do it your damn self Saudi Arabia

Done fighting your wars.

[Chin music]

6. Saudis are diabolically inhuman when chopping up a man in an embassy, or

crashing planeloads of people into the Twin Towers. But, go all weak in the knees, when they have to fight one of their enemies in the open? FUCK-YOU SA. Do your shit yourself.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Why don't they communicate directly with Kushner?

Isn't that what they normally do? I thought MBS and he were best pals.

[Iliyah]

8. OR . . .

we are not going to keep sending you money!

[Fritz Walter]

9. OK, this answers one question

“If Bolton is pushing for a ground-war against Iran, where would we base our troops?”

My first guess would have been Netanyahu’s neighborhood (Israel). But even he knows better: way too much at stake. With the Palestinians and their sympathizers, if no one else.

Meanwhile, MbS and JarJar (Kushner) have been plotting this strategy all along.
The penny finally dropped. For me anyway.
It will take the M$M months to connect the dots. By then... we’ll be chin-deep in flag-draped coffins.

[malaise]

10. Just kill kill kill

and then steal Iran's resources.

Fuck off terrorists

[blueinredohio]

12. Let Saudi Arabia fight their own battles.

[JCMach1]

13. Precisely where the pressure is coming from via Bolton and Pompeo

[area51]

14. Hey Saudi "9/11" Arabia, STFU & MYOB

[dalton99a]

15. Fight your own wars, assholes