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Saudi Arabia, Iran after the summits of discontent – Al Jazeera English – Saudi Arabia, Iran after the summits of discontent  Al Jazeera English

Saudi Arabia hosted three summits last week – a Gulf, an Arab and an Islamic one – with one common goal: Confront and isolate Iran. All other urgent issues in the region, from the ongoing decimation of Yemen to the implosion of Libya to the daily bombings in Syria and the worsening occupation of Palestine, all had to take a backseat to the Saudi-UAE escalation against the Islamic Republic. By the end of the meetings, Saudi efforts to put diplomatic pressure on Tehran paid off, at least on paper. The final communique of the emergency Gulf and Arab summits condemned Iranian interference in Ar…

– June 4, 2019 at 08:38AM

John Jason Fallows

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