EA on talkRADIO: Explaining the US-Iran-Saudi Conflict

Posted by Scott Lucas | Sep 17, 2019 | 2

Fires at the Saudi Aramco oil complex after drone and missile stirkes, September 14, 2019

With Donald Trump and Iran’s leaders both stepping up confrontational rhetoric after Saturday’s drone and missile attacks on Saudi oil facilities, Gurpreet Narwan of The Times and I joined talkRADIO’s Eamonn Holmes on Monday to discuss the economic, political, and military consequences.

Listen from 19:09 in 1700-1730 Segment

Iran — and I do think Iran is behind this attack, directly or indirectly — has upped the states for the US and the rest of the world: “If you are going to keep putting sanctions on us, we are going to make you hurt.”

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

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Anonymous on September 17, 2019 at 16:28
Images of soccer fans chant in support of the blue girl, and her favorite team wears black which was censored on tv broadcast
https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-soccer-fans-blue-girl/30167286.html
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Anonymous on September 17, 2019 at 13:31
Clearly a lot of BS fly around from the US side and IRI. From iri, nothing new just the same BS we use to out of desperation, lack of policy, or wisdom. From the US side, we know DT has lose mouth and anything can come out that may or may not amount to much. But clearly the US is in control seat of when and where to respond. Really, if you were going to a war of any scale, that is what you want to do. So, give the US credit, and maybe a bit to DT.
As for iri, well, they are just building up a case against themselves.
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