Comments | ontd_political: UAE Ambassador: We 'Absolutely' Want U.S. To Stop Iran

merig00 in ontd_political

UAE Ambassador: We 'Absolutely' Want U.S. To Stop Iran

Jul 08, 2010 10:23

According to United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef al-Otaiba, efforts to prevent Iran from going nuclear by use of military force are better than that country actually going nuclear.

The ambassador made the assertion earlier this week during a conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival, a ( Read more... )

saudi arabia, iran, usa, middle east, united arab emirates, nuclear weapons

Comments 16

arisma July 8 2010, 15:32:07 UTC

ladypolitik July 8 2010, 15:33:33 UTC

LOL.

Mid-East nation-states convinced that Iran is a thorn in the side of their military and geopolitical self-interests in the region play up established American hysteria in order coax third party nation-states into violating/invading/overthrowing Iran's autonomy. News @ 11.

paulnolan July 8 2010, 15:42:16 UTC

Pretty much. :]

trf_chan July 8 2010, 16:10:12 UTC

Yeah, this.

danyjoncew July 8 2010, 18:54:46 UTC

Thank you.

schonste July 8 2010, 15:49:21 UTC

fuck the uae sorry

telemann July 8 2010, 16:04:07 UTC

UAE needs to worry about its slave labor force and other really horrible social injustices and not so much about Iran.

iweep4u July 8 2010, 16:42:23 UTC

Why does this post have a "Saudi Arabia" tag?

paulnolan July 8 2010, 16:42:57 UTC

I wondered that too.

merig00 July 8 2010, 17:26:59 UTC

clicked by mistake. i don't think i can delete it though :(

paulnolan July 8 2010, 17:28:26 UTC

Yeah, you'll have to wait for a maintainer to come along.