Sunday, May 07, 2006

Arab distrust of Iran gains momentum

As reported here, Gulf Arabs are becoming more anxious about what the lunatic in Iran is doing regarding the enrichment of uranium, fearing pollution and radioactive fallout should there be a nuclear meltdown.

Even some editorialists are getting anxious enough, as "... the unease showed itself in a front-page editorial this week in Kuwait's Al-Siyassah daily. Iran, it said, was engaged in a "boyish politics." The newspaper further declared that the Americans have the right to "guarantee the security of the (region's) oil fields... and oil's export routes."". This is in response to Iran's "Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi warn[ing that] his nation had "control over the biggest and most sensitive energy route of the world.""

It's heartening to know that even Arabs are becoming distressed over what the Iranians are doing, but as the silence remains from the Arab world in the greater war on global terrorism, as Abdul Khaleq Abdullah, of Emirates University, asks, ""Where is Gulf diplomacy? Why are they shying away?""

Why, indeed?

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