by Jim Campbell
From: WikiLeaks Diplomatic Cables
When one gives this some thought it makes perfect sense and the U.S. would welcome this as well. With the current administration none of these countries have a clue what Obama might do with the exception of nothing to prevent a nuclear Iran and potential holocaust of unimaginable proportions.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, I’m J.C and I approve this message.
By SPIEGEL Staff
Iran’s biggest enemy among the Arabs is bin Zayed, Abu Dhabi’s crown prince and a key figure in the Emirates. In his talks with members of the Obama administration, he compared the current situation with conditions in Europe shortly before World War II, and Tehran’s show of power with that of Saddam Hussein in 1990, shortly before his invasion of Kuwait. Bin Zayed, like most other rulers in the region, believed that the attempt to have a dialogue with the Iranians would fail.
“Iran was already acting like a nuclear power,” he told the US deputy energy secretary, “Iran is establishing ‘emirates’ across the Muslim world, including South Lebanon and Gaza, sleeper ‘emirates’ in Kuwait and Bahrain, and the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, the mother of all ‘emirates’ in Southern Iraq, and now Saada in Yemen.”
The crown prince believes “‘all hell will break loose’ if Iran attains the bomb, with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey developing their own nuclear weapons capability and Iran instigating Sunni-Shia conflict throughout the world,” the Americans wrote after the conversation with the sheikh. “MbZ described a near term conventional war with Iran as clearly preferable to the long-term consequences of a nuclear armed Iran.”
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