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Apr 03, 2014 03:00 am | Trita Parsi
As
President Barack Obama must have noticed during his visit, there is a
panicky tone to almost everything the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does these
days, whether it’s campaigning for two years to win a coveted seat on
the UN Security Council only to give it up immediately after the vote, or its public pronouncements of going it alone in the chaos of Syria, or its break with its fellow Arab state Qatar, or the closing of the Al Jazeera office in Riyadh, or the banning of the books of renowned Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish. Or, of course, its opposition to diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program and the prospects of a US-Iranian thaw.read morehttp://server1.nationalinterest.org/commentary/why-the-saudis-are-panicking-10179
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