Tag: United States
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On the U.S. Elections
Sebastian Castelier of Al-Monitor has a good roundup of different reactions from a few Saudi commentators. Abdulrahman al-Rashed has taken up the prospects of a Biden administration for the Gulf in a trio of op-eds, leading off with an emphasis on the enduring importance of the US-Saudi relationship. Contrary to what the anti-Saudi media is…
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Omnibus (May and June 2020)
It’s been more difficult than I thought to keep up with this, so this is a fairly haphazard dump of links to commentary for the past month or so. Qatar 3 years on from the start of the Gulf rift, double-header op-eds from leading Aawsat columnists Salman al-Dosari and Abdelrahman al-Rashed What saddens Qatar is…
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Attacks on Abqaiq and Khurais, Continued
There has been a lot of back-and-forth in the Saudi press about what’s happening with respect to Abqaiq and Iran, although coverage has understandably focused more on Aramco claims of swiftly restoring production than concerns that it will take considerable time to fully repair the severe damage to facilities. This in turn has led some…
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KSA: June 15-22
Confrontation with Iran “Today, the world has a real chance to get rid of the civilizational threat that the Iranian regime represents. It is useless to talk of a “peaceful solution” unless the regime changes, and under no circumstances should the current regime be expected to change its behavior. This is not the “behavior” of…
The Bitter Lake 