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October 28, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/analysis-iran-s-unlikely-understanding-with-saudi-arabia-1.321362

Iran and Saudi Arabia Are Working Together

(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - The American effort to portray the $60 billion arms deal between Riyadh and Washington as aimed against Tehran doesn't fit with the Saudi point of view. "Iran is not the enemy, Israel is the enemy," the head of the Center for Strategic Studies in Saudi Arabia declared in an interview with Al Jazeera. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia twice last week, and Iran reported that a senior Iranian official would visit Riyadh soon. Regarding Lebanon, Iran is trying to persuade Saudi Arabia to help stop the work of the special international tribunal investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in order to prevent the collapse of the Lebanese regime. Meanwhile, the indictment is not expected before February.

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