“We Arabs Will Handle Iran”
Arabs Should Stand Up to Iran
CAIRO — Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat urged Arabs on Tuesday to stand up to Iran’s ambitions in the region, including its nuclear program.
Prince Saud al-Faisal told a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo that non-Arab countries should not interfere in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories — all places where the predominantly Persian Iran has been accused of supporting militants.
Arabs fear that the Obama administration’s expected efforts to engage Tehran might lead to a deal that would bring U.S. and Iran closer at the expense of Arab interests.
Saud stressed that resolution of disputes among Arabs depended on “a unified and a joint vision” in dealing with the “Iranian challenge in regard to the Arabian Gulf security and the nuclear issue.”
The Arabian Gulf is also known as the Persian Gulf.
The predominantly Sunni Arab Middle East has been wary of the growing influence of Shiite Iran, and Saud’s comments were a clear call for Arab unity.
His remarks came a day after he and his Arab counterparts expressed their concerns about Iran to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The ministers and Clinton met on the sidelines of an international conference in Egypt that raised $5.2 billion in pledges to rebuild the devastated Gaza Strip after Israel’s recent offensive.
Last week, Clinton announced the appointment of veteran diplomat Dennis Ross as her special adviser on matters related to the Gulf, including overtures to the Iranians.
Clinton assured the Arab ministers that Washington is carefully considering its moves and will consult fully with Gulf allies on Iran issues.
Arab League chief Amr Moussa said after the ministers’ meeting in Cairo that Arabs must be kept informed about Iran.
“I demand that no foreign (power) talks to Iran without Arabs being aware of it and having a role in the process,” Moussa said.
Bahrain had asked the ministers to put Iran on the agenda of the Arab League meeting, amid growing concerns in the tiny Gulf kingdom that Iran still holds longtime claims to the island. Bahrain is ruled by a Sunni elite, but its Shiite majority has close ties to Iran.
Also Tuesday in Cairo, Saud and his Egyptian counterpart met with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem in efforts to bridge the rift between the two U.S.-allied Arab powerhouses and the Iran-backed Syria.
(AP)
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Well considering the Iranians are Persians, they will most likely not give two shits what the Arabs say.
Will they handle this as well as they did Saddam in the early 90’s?
Yha what day will this happen, the next day ,or perhaps next week or maybey next month or maybe next year or not at all. by the time any of these assholes get around to it they( iran) will have their nukes and be selling them to the highest bider I say hit them now and hit them HARD and be done with them
““I demand that no foreign (power) talks to Iran without Arabs being aware of it and having a role in the process,†Moussa said.”
Demand???? This is more evidence of the Saudi perception that they are top of the food chain and everybody else should just submit. So now the US has to check in with the royal family before conducting their foreign affairs? Go fuck yourself raghead.
Pull our $900 million (which shouldn’t have been offered in the first place) and let those fuckers rebuild it.
If they are so worried about Iran, then why the fuck are they rebuilding Gaza? Just more smoke in our faces to try and cover up the their wanted destruction of Israel. 
History will show that Saudi and Pakistan were the countries that should have been taken out as hotbeds of jihadi activity.
That’s big talk from a race of people who throughout history have gotten their asses handed to them every time they fought the Persians.
Funny thing is, both the Iranians and Arabs know that history all too well.
“History will show that Saudi and Pakistan were the countries that should have been taken out as hotbeds of jihadi activity.”
Its not only the country its the religion.
The Arabs conquered Persia. Not the other way around. (633–656). Oh yeah, no doubt the Persians remember that very well. And now they’re in the drivers seat.
Sunnis consider Shia Iran to be an apostate form of Islam. Even though Sunnis make up 80% of Islam, the Islamist supremacists in Saudi, the decendents of the Quraysh tribe of Muhammed (the true Arayan Muslims); the Saudis are nothing but little men in burquas.
Iran has the Islamic “com” and the Arabs will do exactly what they did in Kuwait when Saddam invaded it: nothing.