Iran and 'the door we never opened..." Must read from ATimes Online

[Gloria]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IA06Ak01.html

Iran and 'the door we never opened ...'

Tehran is watching with concern the growing anti-Iran diatribes of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. These Arab allies of the US may already have succeeded in scotching any Bush administration notions of making concessions to Iran. And as a consequence, Washington is left with no political card to play other than resorting to diplomatic pressure tactics, or of course going to war. -


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Very interesting discussion on the role of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan in this whole thing.

"Iran is watching closely the growing coordination of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt with Israel at the operative level in Lebanon and Palestine. Israel, of course, has not hesitated to "leak" from time to time the details of its covert dealings with Riyadh and Cairo. Thus Iran has dismissed out of hand the Arab League special envoy's mission to Beirut last month and his four-point mediation formula for the consideration of Hezbollah. "