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Kerry Promises Israel, Saudis Money
Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday moved to reassure Congress that Israel and America’s Gulf State allies would be fully taken care of in the wake of the Iran nuclear deal, which Kerry acknowledged would not stop Iran’s support for terrorism, according to a letter sent by the secretary of state to lawmakers.
Just moments after the White House secured enough votes to override a congressional veto of the Iran deal, a letter from Kerry appeared in the inboxes of congressional offices across Capitol Hill.
Kerry admits that, despite the deal, Iran will continue to back terrorist groups across the globe and promises to boost military support and funding to Israel and Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The letter comes in response to concerns among lawmakers, Israel, and other Gulf region allies that the nuclear accord will boost the Islamic Republic’s support for terrorism, while leaving traditional U.S. allies on the defense.
“Important questions have been raised concerning the need to increase security assistance to our allies and partners in the region and to enhance our efforts to counter Iran’s destabilizing activities in the region,” Kerry writes. “We share the concern expressed by many in Congress regarding Iran’s continued support for terrorist and proxy groups throughout the region, its propping up of the Assad regime in Syria, its efforts to undermine the stability of its regional neighbors, and the threat it poses to Israel.”
The Obama administration, Kerry claims, is under “no illusion that this behavior will change following implementation of the JCPOA,” or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
“The president has made clear that he views Israel’s security as sacrosanct, and he has ensured that the United States has backed up this message with concrete actions that have increased US military, intelligence, and security cooperation with Israel to their highest levels ever,” the letter states.
Kerry then goes on to outline the ways in which the Obama administration will enhance security cooperation with Israel and Gulf State allies.
Israel, for instance, will be the first country in the region to get a U.S.-made next-generation F-35 fighter aircraft in 2016.
An additional $3 billion in U.S. aid also will go to secure Israel’s missile defense programs, such as the Iron Dome system. The administration also stands ready “to enhance” funding to next-generation missile defense systems, such as Arrow-3 and David’s Sling.
The administration, Kerry writes, recently “offered Israel a $1.89 billion munitions resupply package that will replenish Israel’s inventories and will ensure its long-term continued access to sophisticated, state of the art precision guided munitions.”
The administration will additionally work to secure a new 10-year “Memorandum of Understanding” with the Jewish state that “would cement for the next decade our unprecedented levels of military assistance,” Kerry writes.
Kerry also proposes to collaborate with Israel on “tunnel detection and mapping technologies to provide Israel new capabilities to detect and destroy [terrorist] tunnels before the could be used to threaten Israeli civilians.”
President Barack Obama has further proposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the two governments “begin the process aimed a further strengthening our efforts to confront conventional and asymmetric threats.”
Gulf States, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), also will benefit from increased arms shipments and new security deals, according to Kerry.
The administration is “working to expedite the delivery of capabilities needed to deter and combat regional threats, including terrorism and Iran’s destabilizing activities in the region,” Kerry writes.
In July, for example, the administration notified Congress of new arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE “that will provide long-term strategic defense capabilities and support for their ongoing operations,” the letter states.
Another goal is to strengthen ballistic missile defense capabilities in the region. This goal, Kerry says, “is a strategic imperative and an essential component to deterring Iranian aggression against any GCC member state.”
One senior Congressional aide who received the letter said that it is a clear attempt by the administration to placate regional fears about the deal.
“Let’s not be fooled about what the letter represents. This desperate move to placate Israel and our Gulf partners is a tacit acknowledgment that Iran will expand its international terror regime thanks to the nuclear agreement,” the source said. “If this is such a good deal, why does the administration feel compelled to immediately offer arms packages as compensation to our regional allies?”
“No amount of conventional weapons can neutralize the threat posed by the mullahs acquiring nuclear weapons,” the source said. “This type of appeasement is a slap in the face to our closets allies and a wink-wink to the dictators in Tehran.”
56 Comments on "Kerry Promises Israel, Saudis Money"
Makati1 on Wed, 2nd Sep 2015 7:34 pm
And who actually believes a serial liar like Kerry? Not most leaders with two brain cells that function. The ME is moving away from the Empire, not cozying up to it.
Had to laugh at this one…
“Israel, for instance, will be the first country in the region to get a U.S.-made next-generation F-35 fighter aircraft in 2016.”
You mean the plane 14+ years in production, costing $400B++ so far, that doesn’t work and is worse then planes built 30 years ago in the areas that count? LMAO
More bullshit from the brain dead State Department. Ignore.
Makati1 on Wed, 2nd Sep 2015 8:08 pm
In other news:
“Why Iran Won’t Double-cross Russia”
http://journal-neo.org/2015/09/01/why-iran-wont-double-cross-russia/
“Some speculation is weaving through the airwaves that once its US-imposed sanctions are lifted in several months, Iran will shift its existing allegiance with Russia and instead double-cross the Great Russian Bear by doing gas and oil export deals that directly undercut Russia, especially Gazprom’s Turkish Stream gas pipeline aimed at the southern EU states … No matter what dreams may be floating around the Pentagon however, for many reasons an Iranian double-cross is highly unlikely.”
apneaman on Wed, 2nd Sep 2015 8:11 pm
Iran Says Oil Exports Reach Six Million Barrels Per Day
http://shipandbunker.com/news/emea/788020-iran-says-oil-exports-reach-six-million-barrels-per-day
Boat on Wed, 2nd Sep 2015 8:14 pm
The US already gave Israel 5,000 lb bunker busting bombs. Upgraded bunker busters are in the works. Not a good time to work in Iran in the nuke business.
Plantagenet on Wed, 2nd Sep 2015 9:08 pm
Boat is wrong on this one. It’s a great time to be in the secret nuke biz in Iran. Obama is giving them 150 billion to increase funding for terrorism, nuke research, etc and has signed a deal allowing Iran to continue their bomb research as long as it is done in military labs
ghung on Wed, 2nd Sep 2015 9:22 pm
It’s not like it’s real money….
apneaman on Wed, 2nd Sep 2015 10:44 pm
“One senior Congressional aide” AKA The Source. Sure.
beamofthewave on Wed, 2nd Sep 2015 10:45 pm
I don’t care about Israel.
Makati1 on Wed, 2nd Sep 2015 10:59 pm
Boat, they will have to get past the S-300+ missile barriers Russia is sending to Iran at the moment. Not gonna happen and the Israelis know it. So does the Empire.
GregT on Wed, 2nd Sep 2015 11:29 pm
“I don’t care about Israel.”
Problem solved then. Thanks beam!
marko on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 9:19 am
America flat broke. Lavishly distributing money around.
ghung said it correctly It’s not like it’s real money….
print baby print
paulo1 on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 9:55 am
It’s their money, Plant.
I’m with Mak on this one. I guess the US can borrow some money and give it to Israel. How does a broke country give anybody, anything? And yes, The F-35 is a boondoggle. Should have built newer 16s and 18s. Upgraded them as need be.
BobInget on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 10:20 am
The digital printing press, your keyboard,
must be the 20th Century’s brightest invention. I often joked some posters might run short of “!” . As long as a person’s battery holds out, zeros are endless.
You stone throwers here should move out of glass houses. The US has bases in more countries then say, let me think, Iran.
The US is currently bombing more countries then say, Iran. Even dreadful Saudi Arabia is only doing genocide in a single neighboring nation.
As for Israel, a very special case, if it were not for active and retired IDF military Ole Bebi
would have us all dead by now.
In 80 years I’ve only come up with a few
semi smart thoughts. Maybe tops on that short list has to be: “There is no such thing as a preemptive nuclear war”.
Netanyahu does not agree. Not only that, for the first time in US history a foreign leader tried, and failed, to run US policy.
WE really had the closest call ever.
Just two Jewish ministers in Tel Aviv saved
Plant’s, your and my sorry asses.
In case you missed that scandal before it was
hushed up, here it is.
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.672907
Makati1 on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 10:22 am
paulo1, the US may have a problem borrowing as the Chinese, Russians, Saudis and other countries are cashing in their USTs and not buying more. All the Us has left is printing until the presses explode.
penury on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 10:46 am
Consulting the tea leaves and my chicken entrails I see a large change coming. To paraphrase one of my favorites Dr. Who “Something in the darkness is stirring, an is coming this way.” The U.S. is bankrupt. To think that we can continue to spend more than GDP annually on military and military actions around the world is worse than hubris it is insanity. The light at the end of the tunnel is the glow from the nuclear detonation of the money systems of the world. Enjoy the ride.
Davy on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 10:46 am
Well, folks the numbers tell a different story on who is difficulties. Clearly China, Russia, and the remaining Brics are all in lousy shape and deteriorating. The rest of the commodity driven EM’s are falling fast.
It amazes me how people on this board take cheap shots at the U.S. Yes, the U.S. is broke. Yes, the U.S. Is in financial difficulties. If you are on this board even a few days the anti-Americns will have that hammered into your head in a repetitious ad-nauseum agenda seek.
The inconvienient truth is the U.S. Is supposed to be collapsed now per the anti-Americans and it is not. The Brics were supposed to have decouled from the U.S. and they have not. The Brics were supposed to bury the U.S. economically and they have not.
Instead the U.S. Is doing far better than the anti-Americans would care to admit. It is plain to see now that time has elapsed these many months just how incorrect the anti-Americans have been and how reasonably well the U.S. is doing per the dire straights the U.S. was supposed to be in. Wouldn”t it be sad for the anti-Americans if the U.S. we’re the last man standing before falling over into collapse. I love it!
onlooker on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 10:56 am
It is not so much that the US is not in economic difficulty it is just that the rest like Brics and EU are also. So with the interrelation in the economic sphere they either all try and stay up or they will all go down. At that is how it seems to me. It is a non-zero sum game.
penury on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 11:17 am
Davy, be patient, life is long, and empires take a long time to die. Collateral damage to other economies is not a glitch it is the plan. And onlooker is correct, it sometimes is good to be the least rotten apple in the barrel. But you are still a rotten apple, And Davy I think sometimes you mistake reality for anti.U.S I would like you to remember that truth does not imply dislike and lies do not constitute patriotism au contrare they can constitute just blind faith.
apneaman on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 12:11 pm
Davy, just stop it. If you want to refute any criticism then do it with logic or data – stop playing the victim anti American card. You’re starting to sound like the Christians. When someone brings up some American rot or misdeeds then argue it on a case by case basis otherwise it’s meaningless. What I would do – what I did rather when I first started hearing more anti American rhetoric is ask why? Why are so many Americans bashing their own country. Then ask yourself where did that phrase anti American come from? Does it make sense that the country that promotes free speech as one of its main virtues has a blanket label for anyone who is critical of it? If free speech is a virtue and one of the cornerstones of American greatness then accusing others of being anti American is, in fact, the most anti American thing one can do.
onlooker on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 12:46 pm
Well said Ap, I am one of the those Americans who criticizes the US for the nasty Empire it is and it’s culpability in the mess we are in right now. We all can play the blame game and their is certainly much blame to be meted out to many entities. Having said that ordinary Americans comprising the middle class and lower class are as much victims of the Empire as anyone. Yet many have been willing victims by looking the other way, content to be living in the richest country in the world
marko on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 1:19 pm
Davy, to make certain one thing I am not anti american, if you implied to me . I am anti imperial and anti parasitic classes . Human kind could prosper without this two, but unfortunately we didn’t succeeded . We have a situation now that people who print money ( usa china whatever ) are smart and you me and billions of other, are idiots and that is insulting . America is first on the list from obvious reasons I hope you understand why
GregT on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 1:21 pm
“ordinary Americans comprising the middle class and lower class are as much victims of the Empire as anyone. Yet many have been willing victims by looking the other way”
Totally agree onlooker.
I have been accused of being an “anti American” on these forums many times. Nothing could be further from the truth. I stand up for everything that the founding fathers fought for.
What I am against is the evil behind the scenes in America, those that are robbing the US blind in plain sight, as well as much of the rest of the world. Until the US populous wakes up, and elects a government that is willing to grow some balls and stand up to the MIC and the central bankers, the US will continue to be “bashed” around the world. What is blatantly obvious to many of us, is being supported by a majority that has fallen for the propaganda, hook line and sinker. The US is not the world’s policeman, it has become the world’s leading warmonger, all in the name of gross profit for the few, at the expense of many.
onlooker on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 1:35 pm
Magnificently stated Greg. I would add that part of the brainwashing is because it was deliberate. I believe their are threads here about that if not much information on the Internet about the PR machine and it’s role in brainwashing the American populace it has not helped that they own all the main media in the US and that humans are vulnerable to this mental manipulation. George Orwell “1984” is a brilliant expose on this.
ptoemmes on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 2:09 pm
And the Saudi’s don’t promote a brand of “terrorism”. Heck, the way the USA defines (domestic) terrorism these days it’s a good thing SA is not a USA state instead of a vassal state – or do I have that reversed.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/09/02/even-tom-friedman/
Good thing none of us (I have to assume) who might criticize the “war on terror” as executed by the USA are professional journalists: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-03/west-point-professor-calls-military-strikes-journalists-critical-war-terror
BC on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 2:14 pm
GregT, “everything” the Founders fought for? Slavery? Expropriation of land? Prohibiting women from voting? A male couldn’t vote unless he owned land/property?
🙂
That’s in large part the legacy the South fought for in the (un)Civil War and all the way through to the Civil Rights Movement and down to this day in some quarters.
🙂
BTW, there was the Anti-Imperial movement of the Victorian Depression era of the late Gilded Age during the late 19th century, of which Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens was a member and Andrew Carnegie financially supported.
The US has been becoming an empire essentially from the onset of the republic, but it became unequivocally so during the Spanish-American War and irreversibly since W W II and the Cold War.
green_achers on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 2:25 pm
Nice deal. After accomplishing a pretty impressive diplomatic feat, pulling in who knows what favors and credits with the 5 most important economic powers, and shouldering most of the burden, the US’ reward is to give more stuff to our main parasites in the region, cuz, y’know, their feelin’s are hurt.
GregT on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 2:30 pm
Fair enough BC. Maybe I exaggerated a tad……..
onlooker on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 2:39 pm
In defense of Greg, the phrase ” I stand up for everything that the founding fathers fought for” can be slightly modified by saying I stand up for what this country stood for. Meaning the words of the Declaration of Independence so eloquent they still reverberate to this day. “All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” Unfortunately, rarely has this ideal been lived up to in any human social group.
Davy on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 3:01 pm
Friends looks like I touched a nerve. I stand by what I said in regards to the Brics. Please don’t put lipstick on pigs.
As for the rest of what I said I will do what I do with my wife when I am in trouble “don’t complain or explain”.
onlooker on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 3:32 pm
Davy maybe it would help to keep in mind that from my vantage point most people who display this anti-americanism are really directing it at the policies of the US govt. rather than the American people.
apneaman on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 3:42 pm
onlooker, the protection of those ideals, which are now gone, is being used as an excuse to run roughshod over regular folks at home and abroad. The freedoms will never be given back. They were never given to begin with.
Tom on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 6:34 pm
Why not just send the military aid directly to al Quaeda instead of funneling it through Saudi Arabia? That will expedite our journey back to the middle ages instead of having things drag out.
Tom on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 6:52 pm
Obviously, what the Middle East needs is an incendiary buildup of military weapons and ordinance. It is our standard practice to arm our enemies, presently known or unknown, before we later decide to kill them. It’s good for the military industrial complex; not so much for the U.S. taxpayer or American soldier.
theedrich on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 7:56 pm
BobInget said, “for the first time in US history a foreign leader tried, and failed, to run US policy.”
I am in total agreement. Up to now, I have regarded almost everything the current POTUS has done as stupid, insane, counterproductive, utterly inane, or meaningless. However, through his Iran agreement he has suddenly gained my earnest appreciation. Never before has any prez dared to resist the “Judeo-Christian” force majeure.
Somehow something has to be done to oppose the foreign puppeteers (especially the “Never-Again” paranoiacs) and their master lobbyists from twisting American history to their advantage. That miracle seems now to have happened through the most unexpected of agents.
Makati1 on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 8:11 pm
Onlooker, I DO blame the people in America for America’s condition today. Only they have the numbers/power to change it. But, for the most part, they will not even try, until it is too late. The dumbing down and distractions are too much to overcome for many. The day of collapse is fast approaching.
They voted-in the Congress and Executives that run the government. They keep the same psychopathic people in Congress until they become too senile to feed themselves. The crowd of Presidential wannabees is a perfect example of what is coming to the next Presidency. Fools, clowns, liars, grifters*, Clinton and Bush reruns, etc.
I do not totally blame the sheeple, because the brainwashing has been one of the rare successes of US ‘education’. Just think what could have been done had that ability been used to actually educate the masses in fields of science, ecology, philosophy, mathematics, history, etc. America might have lived up to the promise it began with. But, that too is too late. It is doomed to failure unlike any seen before.
*grift•er (ˈgrɪf tər)
n. Slang.
1. a person who operates a sideshow at a circus, fair, etc., esp. a gambling attraction.
2. a swindler, dishonest gambler, or the like.
Makati1 on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 8:14 pm
theedrich, I suspect his motives and the success of his attempt to salvage his legacy in this way. He will be remembered as a failed President for as long as there is a memory of anything. This attempt doesn’t change anything. Or so it seems to me. Time will tell.
BC on Thu, 3rd Sep 2015 9:39 pm
GregT: 😀
onlooker, Enlightenment-era sentiment appreciated. The Founders were “radicals” in that they were attempting to overthrow the same monarchical, hierarchical rule as were the French under the Ancient Regime. They wanted their own Roman-like republican self-rule, including slave ownership as in Rome (and Greece before).
Franklin was quoted as saying that the Founders had created a republic, if it could be kept. He was prescient in his trepidation, as it wasn’t kept, but it did become an empire just as did Rome. 🙂
onlooker on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 1:45 am
yes makati, i guess we are agreeing that the sheeple bear some responsibility but limited because of the extensive brainwashing that has gone on in the US. You know it is funny but what originally motivated me to find out about many things was this sense of responsibility towards others on this planet. In shirking this responsibility I do blame anyone and everyone who closes their eyes because it is not “convenient” for them to look. This also means self-delusion about the true nature of things.
theedrich on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 2:10 am
Agreed, Mak: the current clown’s motives are indeed suspect and, maybe, just another attempt to salvage his legacy. Nonetheless, it is unheard-of that anyone, even this spawn of American Negro Frank Marshall Davis, riding on all of the Christianity-driven White Guilt, could overcome the entrenched philosemiticy and longstanding murderous “benevolence” of the American political zoo toward other, non-Anglophone countries. The Iran deal may be a kind of historical accident, but it also just might be a wedge in the death grip that other “friends” have on our gov.
marmico on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 4:14 am
the extensive brainwashing that has gone on in the US.
Peak oil preppers are re-branded gentlemen farmers from 50 years ago without the trophy spouse.
The life cycle went from Leave it to Beaver to Green Acres. Talk about brainwashing.
Davy on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 4:42 am
Yea, BC, Frankilin was allege to say of the US when asked how long the nation would last that it might last maybe 200 years before corruption brought it down. We are right on track.
Davy on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 4:50 am
Conversation said “the extensive brainwashing that has gone on in the US.”
We have people on this board that are the kettle calling the pot black. The rest of the world is no different in regards to narratives. Many countries have little narrative hence their weakness and insignificance.
I accept the US has a strong national identity. This brainwashing may just contribute to the US being the last man standing which would irritate the hell out of many of you. Americans have a way of drawing around the flag in times of trouble I know I was here in 01 when the towers fell. Say what you like the fact is few countries can match the passion of Americans to come together in times like that.
Davy on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 4:58 am
The life cycle went from Leave it to Beaver to Green Acres. Talk about brainwashing.
As a matter of fact my situation is much like the happiness found on Green Acres. My wife is like Eva in many ways. Italians are so fun. I enjoy the accent and way she talks. Cooks like Massimo Batura! “Leave it to Beaver” is a happy show with simple values. What is wrong with that Marmi? I think you secretly are jealous. You don’t see me desiring the lifestyle you are trying to lead and advocating. I left that life because it was a failure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzGdDqWJcFU
Rodster on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 5:35 am
So we have the USSA destabilizing the world. Syria in particular who they are hellben on overthrowing Assad. It has created a refugee problem which has no created a PR problem for the Evil Empire after a 3 year old Syrian boy drowns and the picture goes viral.
Putin calls out the USSA for its blatant attempt at destabilizing and creating more chaos in the ME. Putin decides the humanitarian thing to do is offer aid and humanitarian assistance to Assad and Syria. The USSA aka Evil Empire says Putin is the one destabilizing the Syrian crisis.
You just can’t make this shit up folks. This is why humans need to go extinct permanently.
Davy on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 5:41 am
The Mafia Don of the ex USSR continues to support a nasty regime that enslaved and oppressed a country for decades. What is the friggen difference? The Mafia Don of the ex USSR is sending troops and material to a fight he can’t afford because his nation is in an economic recession not seen in years. He has extended himself in multiple areas still believing Russia is a healthy powerful country. Yea, we can rightly bash the US but PALEEEASE don’t blow mental flatulence my way.
Makati1 on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 6:56 am
Davy just cannot help himself. The overpowering need to justify his support of the Evil Empire vs the shit can he asserts that the rest of the world is, is amusing and sad. Reality can be a bitch. Too bad he and most Americans cannot/will not accept the fact that America is no longer number one in anything but debt and terrorism. The preeminent war mongering nation, whose economy cannot exist without wars and chaos.
onlooker on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 7:27 am
Was it now Eisenhower who warned some years back beware of the Military/Industrial complex. Boy was he right. Yet it goes deeper then that it is the insidious elites behind the scenes that made this world possible and they are no more American then let us say a Guatemalan. Remember this name Rothchild is you want to see the nature of these elite.
Davy on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 7:33 am
LMFAO, Mak, couldn’t help himself. He has been silent concerning my comments but broke his silence when the irritation became extreme. The truth is a bitch isn’t is Mak! You want to rightly criticize the evil empire but not when it includes criticism of your superhero Putin. That is a classic case of an agendist and in your case a rabid anti-Americanism.
Rodster on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 9:01 am
“Was it now Eisenhower who warned some years back beware of the Military/Industrial complex. Boy was he right. Yet it goes deeper then that it is the insidious elites behind the scenes that made this world possible and they are no more American then let us say a Guatemalan. Remember this name Rothchild is you want to see the nature of these elite.”
And that’s exactly who’s running the US Govt, the MIC and TBTF Banks. On the flip side all Govt’s are now being run and controlled by their respective Central Banks but NO government will admit to CB control.
BobInget on Fri, 4th Sep 2015 9:45 am
Early this week I reported Russian Troops
were fighting, (on government side).
Today we have evidence this is true.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11840713/Russian-troops-fighting-alongside-Assads-army-against-Syrian-rebels.html
Now, I’m sure everyone here has their own opinion how this new development shakes out.
This brings US and Russian forces in confrontation. That’s not an opinion, only fact. US and Russian forces even during the Cold War never met in battle.
In doubt? Google “US airstrikes Syria”
“US trained fighters, Syria” “US ground forces Iraq, Syria”
Russia and Iran have been supporting Syria’s President Assad for years, poured billions into keeping Assad in power. Iran and Russia
are not about to loose face to KSA, USA.
I have no predictions, only trepidations.