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Source: http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=3916&TTL=Rising_Tension_between_Iran_and_the_Gulf_Sta

Rising Tension between Iran and the Gulf States

(Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Zvi Mazel - The Arab Gulf states are feeling compelled to adopt an appeasement policy toward Tehran while with increasing dread they helplessly follow the nuclear crisis, epitomized by Iranian determination and aggression in the face of American weakness. The official Iranian news agency has warned them: "There is no lion in the region save for the one that crouches on the shore opposite the Emirate states. He guards his den which is the Persian Gulf. Those who believe that another lion exists in the vicinity (meaning the U.S.) - well, his claws and fangs have already been broken in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine." The writer served as Israel's Ambassador to Egypt and Sweden.

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