From left: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to a trilateral meeting on Syria in Ankara on Monday. Photo: AFP
David P. Goldman and Uwe Parpart, Asia Times: Ankara summit might have motivated Iran’s drone attack
Strike on Saudi oil facilities could have been a power play by Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps
After bilateral talks between Russian President Putin and Turkish President Erdogan and Erdogan and Iranian President Rouhani in Ankara in the course of the day, the three presidents met on Monday night for the fifth summit under the Astana Process to discuss joint steps toward a political solution to the nine-year turmoil in Syria.
Given the frantic actionism and theatrical threats following the Saturday attacks on Saudi oil facilities that go for US diplomatic activity and military planning these days, Syria will not have been the only item on the three leaders’ agenda.
Indeed, Russian and Turkish pressure on Iran’s President Rouhani to withdraw Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps forces from Syria might have motivated Saturday’s drone and/or cruise missile attack on Saudi oil production plants, strategic analysts in several countries believe. The IRGC may have instigated the attacks to preempt a deal that would have reduced its forces in Syria after a bloody multi-year campaign against Sunni rebels backed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
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WNU Editor: It is hard not to believe that Iran was involved in Saturday's military strike on Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure. The intelligence that needed to be gathered and the weapons that needed to be used .... it screams Iran in every way. In that case, the only group in Iran that is capable of conducting such an operation are the Revolutionary Guards. As to why would the Iranian Revolutionary Guards green light the operation .... I think the reasons are many. There is the geopolitical one (as described by the above post), but the growing unrest in Iran may have been another motivation for the IRGC to conduct this strike in order to divert Iranians away from focusing on their tough times. And if the news from the Middle East is any indication, I would say that it is working.
4 comments:
Remember how I said not to add insult to injury when it comes to Iran? And someone was like "but no of course that's what you do". Nope. Keep military operations professional. Do not engage in anything that makes what you have to do worse on either side. Especially not if it adds to theeir determination. Either way, I'm sure they'll pay for it, but it just shows you that Iranians can bite and it will hurt and this is less than 1% of the damage they can inflict on the global markets (not just talking oil here...remember the majority of casualties the US had during the Iraq war was killed by Iranians/their inversion shape IEDs that penetrated even hardened armored vehicles like a hot knife goes through butter).
A war with Iran must be avoided. And everyone knows that, except former "bombomb Iran" McCain (RIP).
And if war cannot be avoided then it will fail as a democratic nation cannot allow the wiping out of another nation and hence the war will fail as in Iran you'd see a war of attrition just like in Iraq or Afghanistan. How many failed states do we want?
I'd much rather a failed state any day of the week, over a state run by the Mullahs.
You really are bias as fuck on this website ,the min theres an attack oh iran they did it ,the houthis general spokesman has affirmed that it was houthis who did the attack
Which included from spokesman that help from.within saudi Arabia and attack was launched very close to saudi border or even within saudi Arabia he was quoted as sayn .Your a pro usgov site.ive seen this from you now too many times
Anon 12:23PM,
After all the exposure to middle eastern verbal duplicity the world has experienced for how many years you ask us to believe one now?
Earth calling anon. Earth calling anon. Come in please.
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