Source: Asia times.
Iran is facing ominous rhetoric and deadly explosions as the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia step up efforts to open Iran’s nuclear facilities to inspection. Tehran is gauging its support from abroad. Syria, a longstanding ally, is in turmoil and Hezbollah in Lebanon would be of only limited help.
Russia and China are far more powerful and potentially more helpful. Both have important trade and defense ties with Iran and both need to show their reliability and efficacy to allies after recent reversals in world affairs. Supporting Iran against attack from the three powers is complicated by other matters between the concerned powers, but a missile option might be attractive.
Categories: Asia, Middle East
Iran does not, or should I say ‘did not’ have all that many friends among the Sunni Muslim community. With US forces spread out all over the Arab (or is it Persion?) Gulf however sentiments are changing. Some individual Sunni Arabs have already started to say that ‘we are now with Iran’ (as the ‘lesser evil’ may be?)… Is it the beginning of a trend? It could be …