Fear and Loathing In The Kingdom -- John Hannah, Foreign Policy
How Washington stabbed the Saudis in the back, and why the Iran deal will start a nuclear arms race in the Persian Gulf.
Pundits and policymakers are missing the big worry about the Obama administration's Iranian nuclear deal: its greatest impact is not ensuring that Iran doesn't get the bomb, but that the Saudis will.
Indeed, the risk of arms race in the Middle East -- on a nuclear hair trigger -- just went up rather dramatically. And it increasingly looks like the coming Sunni-Shiite war will be nuclearized.
Two aspects of the agreement, in particular, will consolidate Saudi fears that an Iranian bomb is now almost certainly coming to a theater near them.
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My Comment: A sobering analysis on what the Saudis are thinking. If true .... time to be afraid because unlike Iran the Saudis have the resources, oil, and allies to truly upend U.S. policy in the Middle East starting with the development of their own nuclear program.
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