What the Media Does Not Say About the Anti-Iran Leaks
AntiWar / Mohamad Sahimi
06-Dec-2010 (one comment)

The most intensely debated documents released by WikiLeaks last week were about what some of the Arab rulers think of Iran and its nuclear program. According to the documents, many of the Arab leaders have been privately urging the United States to attack Iran while publicly claiming that they oppose such attack. In an April 2008 cable, Adel A. al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S., is quoted regarding Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah and his “frequent exhortations to the U.S. to attack Iran and thus put an end to its nuclear weapon program,” urging the U.S. “to cut off the head of the snake.” United Arab Emirates (UAE) Defense Minister Prince Mohammed bin Zayed is quoted in a July 2009 memo as saying that “[Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is Hitler” and urging the U.S. not to “appease” Iran, echoing the views of Israel’s Likud Party.

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How true indeed!

by IranMilitaryForum.net on Mon Dec 06, 2010 09:57 PM PST

  • 15 of the 19 terrorists who attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, were from Saudi Arabia, two from Egypt, and one each from Lebanon and the UAE.
  • Not a single Iranian has been implicated in any terrorist attacks on the United States for at least two decades, and even when Iran has been accused of being involved, no proofs has been presented to the public.
  • The Taliban – bloody enemies of Iran – are in fact the former Afghan mujahedin who were funded by Saudi Arabia, armed by the CIA, and trained by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and they came to power in Afghanistan in 1996 with ISI support. Leaked cables indicate that the U.S. is still worried about ISI support for the Taliban.
  • It was Iran – not Saudi Arabia and the other Arab governments – that provided significant support to the U.S. to overthrow the Taliban in 2001, and in fact it was the Northern Alliance, an Afghan group armed and supported by Iran, that entered Kabul and overthrew the Taliban, not the U.S. Army.
  • Iran played a crucial role in the formation of Afghanistan’s national unity government in December 2001.
  • The Shi’ite groups that are now in power in Iraq and are touted by the U.S. as models of democratic parties in the Middle East were suppressed by Saddam Hussein during the 1980s when the U.S. was supporting Iraq in its war with Iran, and it was Iran that gave these groups refuge and armed and trained them.
  • It is the rich and conservative Arabs of the Persian Gulf who provide funding to Islamic schools – the madrassas – in Pakistan that are breeding grounds for training radicals that eventually carry out attacks on the U.S. and its allies.
  • It is Saudi Arabia that supports terrorist groups such as Jundallah that carry out terrorist attacks inside Iran, and the Salafi and Wahhabi sects of Sunnism, both emanating from Saudi Arabia, provide the ideology for the radical terrorists.
  • It is Saudi Arabia that by siding with Saddam Hussein during his war with Iran and with the Sunnis after he was overthrown by the U.S. has contributed much to war and misery in the Middle East. The vast majority of the fighters of al-Qaeda in Iraq were from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt.
  • The same Saad Hariri quoted in the cable visited Iran two weeks ago and called for a defense pact with Iran.


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