Jazeera Net-Tehran
Iranian officials warned that America is adopting a policy of intimidation from Tehran to blackmail some Gulf countries, pointing out that the goal of the Secretary of Defense's surprise visit to Riyadh and Israel's participation in the Bahrain conference; is to eliminate any possible Gulf-Iranian rapprochement.
Ten days after Pakistani Prime Minister Imran's visit to Tehran, where he made a special initiative to defuse tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, the US administration rushed last Monday to send its new Defense Secretary Mark Esper to Riyadh, for meetings with the Saudis in the event of increasing tension between Washington and Tehran .
Saudi Arabia has translated its talks with the US envoy, exempting former foreign minister Ibrahim al-Assaf and appointing Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah Al-Saud, who is one of the most anti-Iranian statements to succeed him.
Following the Houthis attack on Saudi Aramco facilities, Saudi media quoted the new Saudi foreign minister as saying that all options were on the table to respond to Tehran.
stumbling block
Iranian observers believe that Saudi stances are taking hostile grants to the Islamic Republic after the US Secretary of State's visit to Riyadh, which came after an Iranian welcomed any initiative that would reduce tension in the region.
Ahmad Dostamaljian, the former Iranian charge d'affaires in Saudi Arabia, believes that the United States stands in the way of improving relations between Tehran and Riyadh, despite Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's readiness to go to the Two Holy Mosques.
He criticized Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's policy in the region, and in particular Iran, pointing out that the Trump administration is seeking to sell arms by spreading division among the countries of the region, and that Washington sees its interest in destabilizing our region to fish in troubled waters.
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Saudi Arabia and Iran
Member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Heshmatollah Falah Bishah, said that America is the main factor in straining relations between Tehran and Riyadh, and that the Israeli entity's interest in fabricating the dispute cannot be ignored.
The Iranian parliamentarian that there is a current led by Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir is working influenced by Zionist-American policies to keep relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia tense.
In his latest position, Jubeir expressed in an interview with the French newspaper Liberation that he believed that the truce would not work with Iran, and that the only way to get Tehran to sit at the negotiating table is to put maximum pressure on it.
On the international conference on maritime security hosted by Bahrain, Iranian political scientist Ali Beckdly pointed out that the conference, whose agenda focused on confronting Iran, was held to allay US and Israeli concerns about the possibility of rapprochement between Riyadh and Tehran.
He considered the participation of an Israeli delegation in the Manama conference, but aims at normalization following the news that Jared Kushner, the US president's son-in-law, has been mediating to open channels of communication between Riyadh and Tel Aviv, stressing that the main objective of the Manama conference is to eliminate any possible Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.
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UAE and Iran
Contrary to Riyadh's moves toward Tehran, former Iranian diplomat Amir Mousavi sees the recent Emirati approach as an insistence on getting closer to Tehran because of what he called Abu Dhabi's "impasse over its failure in the wars in Yemen and Libya," as well as the economic crisis caused by those wars.
He explained to Al Jazeera Net that the dispute over the UAE's cooperation with Saudi Arabia in Yemen accelerated the wheel of UAE normalization with Iran, pointing out that the Abu Dhabi dispute with Tehran has exacerbated the deterioration of tourism, real estate trade and the banking sector in the Emirate of Dubai, which raised the grudge of its ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Muffled.
He pointed out that the Iranian threat to the UAE shortly after the Revolutionary Guards shot down a US "Global Hawk" plane that took off near Abu Dhabi airport "posed a serious threat to UAE security." He explained that the Iranians will not tolerate those who want to disturb their national security. Well.
A spectrum of Iranian analysts say the UAE has taken a softer approach to Tehran after oil tankers were attacked off its coast earlier this year.
Bahman said in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that the attack on Saudi Aramco facilities and oil tankers in the Gulf waters showed that security does not exist in the region without the participation of Iran, and that the UAE is well aware that it would be affected by any war may be launched on Iran, especially if the UAE territory includes interests To the aggressor.
He concluded by saying that the UAE side realized soon after the recent events in the Gulf waters that America will not rub with Iran for its allies, especially after Washington avoided confrontation with Iran shortly after shooting down its drone as soon as it entered Iranian airspace.