Escalating Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran are Another Legacy of the Nuclear Deal
With leverage over U.S. policy, Iran doesn’t need nuclear weapons to cause trouble.
January 6, 2016
With leverage over U.S. policy, Iran doesn’t need nuclear weapons to cause trouble.
On Saturday, Saudi Arabia executed 47 men on charges of terrorism, including an anti-government Shiite cleric named Nimr al-Nimr who may well have been receiving Iranian support. In response, a supposedly spontaneous mob attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran, and now Riyadh has broken off relations with the Islamic Republic. The entire crisis, writes Benny Avni, is a byproduct of America’s ill-advised Iran policy:
With leverage over U.S. policy, Iran doesn’t need nuclear weapons to cause trouble.
It has reduced rabbis to bureaucrats subject to the temptations of patronage and corruption.
And why didn’t it?
He professed a religion he continued to scorn.
Teaching Jewish children to question Israel’s legitimacy.
On Saturday, Saudi Arabia executed 47 men on charges of terrorism, including an anti-government Shiite cleric named Nimr al-Nimr who may well have been receiving Iranian support. In response, a supposedly spontaneous mob attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran, and now Riyadh has broken off relations with the Islamic Republic. The entire crisis, writes Benny Avni, is a byproduct of America’s ill-advised Iran policy:
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