I guess I can see that. Perhaps that's the problem with focusing on the military aspect of counter-insurgency and neglecting the ideological conflicts.Those things are not mutually exclusive.
The area controlled by the Islamic State is on the verge of collapse in both Syria and Iraq, but that doesn't mean that external terrorist actions by the Islamic State will abate. In fact, there is every reason to believe that they will increase as battlefield defeat draws nearer.
I wonder why iran revolutionary guard are blaming washington for the attack.
The powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps accused Saudi Arabia of being behind the action, a rare such incident in Iran.
"This terrorist attack happened only a week after the meeting between the U.S. president (Donald Trump) and the (Saudi) backward leaders who support terrorists. The fact that Islamic State has claimed responsibility proves that they were involved in the brutal attack," a Guards statement said.
https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/pu...eases&id=37FFF342-7C3F-4CD2-B52B-B6C332E883FAFeinstein on Iran Sanctions Vote
WashingtonSenator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released the following statement on todays vote to impose new sanctions against Iran:
I join with my colleagues who believe this is the wrong time to approve additional sanctions against Iran. The country has just suffered from two significant terrorist attacks after electing a moderate government with 57 percent of the votewe need to give Iran the opportunity to recover and set a new course.
Yeah. 12 people die and a national parliament attacked and only two pages of commentary. Sympathy around here is really ethnocentric at times.
Thats how bbc is reporting it.Where did you got this from?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-security-idUSKBN18Y0HV
I see how this might be misinterpreted, but it talks about Saudi backward leaders who support terrorism.
I don't think even GAF is.
Wait....is he trying to intimate that Iran sponsors ISIS?
That's just dickish anyways.
Isis? Really? I thought they were "pals" with Iran.
ISIS is goddamn everywhere. Curious how Iran will respond.
While not surprising since it's from the pro-Sunni West that's still some really vile shit.
Iran's revolutionary guards say Saudi Arabia was behind deadly attacks in Tehran
https://mobile.twitter.com/ReutersWorld/status/872464833123405824
#UPDATED #Saudi FM: #Iran must be punished for its interference in region
https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/872271291293855746
uncanny
trump, royal family of ksa and putin are the cancer of this world
I know, i see what you did there. And people still think Isis=Muslims.
Such a ridicolous generalization.
I wonder what Iran's response will be? Sending more troops into Syria?
...do they still have troops in Syria?
You have to really appreciate the level of cluelessness coming from the WH in thier statement. ISIS is to blame but Iran is at fault for supporting terror (implying ISIS). Now in Syria Iran is providing material support to Assad and has committed troops to fight on the ground which Russia also supports. The WH says Russia is fighting terror so somehow Iran now lives in a quantum state of both supporting and fighting ISIS.
I merely gave a comment from the saudi fm hours before the attack.Deash just wants to fire up the high tensions between SA and Iran
and the IRGC is eating it up like a delicious soup
you gave a tweet about the Qatar scenario and the funding of Al - Qeada and not the Tehran attacks
That message from Trump is cold, thoughtless, and all around reprehensible, but I don't see the connection between a terrible mistake and the recent terrorist attacks.Kind of laughable the US brings up terrorists when the US military blew a Iranian airliner out of the sky in the 80s.
Wait....is he trying to intimate that Iran sponsors ISIS?
That's just dickish anyways.
https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/872271291293855746
uncanny
trump, royal family of ksa and putin are the cancer of this world
Kind of laughable the US brings up terrorists when the US military blew a Iranian airliner out of the sky in the 80s.
I'll never get the US' irrational hate boner for Iran. Some Iranians take an embassy hostage, we must hate them for 40 years. Some Saudi Arabians take down the Twin Towers, attack the Pentagon and the White House, here's one trillion in advanced weaponry.
Iran is publicly interfering in six Arab countries destabilizing the region. Its run by a religious regime with a Constitution to "export the islamic revolution"
Let's just not pretend they are innocent because you hate SA for some reason.
Saudi Arabia conversely is not meddling in the Middle East at all. Saintly behavior as they bomb Yemen, fund terrorists and put the squeeze on the gulf states. And they're a heck of a lot better in exporting their Wahhabi revolution across the globe to detrimental effect than any Ayatollah managed.Iran is publicly interfering in six Arab countries destabilizing the region. Its run by a religious regime with a Constitution to "export the islamic revolution"
Let's just not pretend they are innocent because you hate SA for some reason.
lol "for some reason". Lots of reasons to hate SA. They're pretty much exclusively responsible for the majority of the Sunni terrorism that's been plaguing the world for the last few decades. I'd say Saudi is responsible for destabilizing more countries (Afghanistan and Pakistan, for example) than Iran is, which makes the US's love boner for SA and hate for Iran hypocritical.
Pakistan + Afghanistan are both affected by Al-Qaeda or Taliban. Only time SA supported those terrorist groups was during chechen war, after that they stopped supporting them, hell they were affected by numerous attacks inside KSA to remove the "infedel government"
Iran in the other hand is aiding Assad, supplying Hezbollah, and Houthis and causing chaos in Iraq. They are doing it to this day.
SA and Iran are really similar in a lot of things the only difference is the religious regime "malaly" is ruling Iran.
While KSA is still ruled by "Royal family", the situation will be a lot worse if "Royal family" was removed and the crazy religious sect "Sunni"of SA took control.
Saudi Arabia conversely is not meddling in the Middle East at all. Saintly behavior as they bomb Yemen, fund terrorists and put the squeeze on the gulf states. And they're a heck of a lot better in exporting their Wahhabi revolution across the globe to detrimental effect than any Ayatollah managed.
Can't blame the Iranians for finding these ISIS attacks entirely too convenient either.
I think that KSA system consist in foreign policy is under the authority of the Royal Family and internal policy is for the clergy. It's the original deal made between Al-Saoud and the wahhabi reformists.
I am pretty sure that the driving ban for women or the cinema ban came from the clergy and not the royal family.
Iran is more extreme though since the clergy rule internal and external affair alike.
About Yemen, in 2009, Houthi launched an all out attack to invade SA, Saudi Arabia defended their border then closed it.
Fast forward to 2015, Houthi regime with Revelotionary army of Iran planned a coup to remove Hadi ( current Yemen elected president) , Hadi flew to SA and asked for their help against the regime. Thats why operation SA interfered in Yemen.
But lots here love to ignore a lot of facts that's happening in ME.
ME conflicts are historical and very complex.
Man it has been a while since I engaged in politics, back to playing Tekken 7...
I guarantee those bans will lifted sooner than everyone thinks, a lot is changing internally in KSA.
How the clergy would reacts though ? I know the clergy is royally appointed but i doubt they will change all fatwas overnight. Well they kinda did that during the iraqi invasion of Kuwait...
More worrying would be the reaction of the hardliners, but i really don't know their weight in the general population. In Iran, it's certainly a political force.
Let's not forget Erdogan.https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/872271291293855746
uncanny
trump, royal family of ksa and putin are the cancer of this world
Iran is publicly interfering in six Arab countries destabilizing the region.
Believe me, once the order come from the king himself, no clerk will bat an eye (in public of course)
It just hapoened with lifting the ban on women travel...no one dared to oppose the King order.
Also culturally, SA is changing, government has been sending thousands of people to study abroad and come back with knowledge and moderate views of the world. Culture is changing slowly for the better.