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First off, the Pentagon has now said it will defer to Saudi Aranbia\u2019s position and let them take the lead, by their announcing who is responsible for the recent, very destructive attack on the oil depot.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/09\/19\/pentagon-wont-blame-iran-for-saudi-attack-until-saudi-assessment-concludes\/<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0 In a Pentagon meeting with reporters, Jonathan Rath Hoffman, assistant to the secretary of defense of defense for public affairs, said the U.S. would defer to\u00a0Saudi Arabia<\/a>\u00a0and allow them to announce their conclusion for who was behind the attack.<\/p>\n \u201cOur position on this has been we\u2019re going to work through with the Saudis as they make their assessment of what took place,\u201d Hoffman told reporters Thursday. \u201cWith regard to that, we\u2019re going to let them put out the information as they go through the assessment. We\u2019re going to be with them working through that.\u201d<\/p>\n The comments come after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran on Wednesday of being responsible for the attack, which he characterized as an \u201cact of war.\u201d The comments were made to reporters as he traveled to Saudi Arabia. – article<\/p>\n Second, Mr. Zarif (Iran) insists that Iran had nothing to do with it, that it was all the \u201cYemenis\u201d, and that there will be an all-out war if Iran is attacked. He snagged an interview (see the article for the link) with CNN, so you know who\u2019s on his<\/em> side.<\/p>\n Third, Iran has constantly poked and poked both the Saudi government and the USA, as well as other nations (e.g., UK ship hijacking) for months now, the way some obnoxious kid in the 6th<\/sup> grade \u2013 the one who wants attention all the time \u2013 goes around punching and poking the other kids to get the attention he\u2019s after. And he gets it, but for all the wrong reasons. Unless he\u2019s smacked down for it somehow (nowadays, kids get \u201ccounseling\u201d) he just goes on doing it until one day, he meets his match.<\/p>\n And Iran wants to get to that point, declaring publicly that if they are attacked after all the punches and poking they\u2019ve done, then it will be all-out war.\u00a0 https:\/\/time.com\/5681879\/iran-war-warning-saudi-oil-attack\/<\/a>\u00a0 Zarif repeats this in his interview.<\/p>\n From the Time article:\u00a0 (DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) \u2014 Any attack on Iran by the U.S. or Saudi Arabia will spark an \u201call-out war,\u201d Tehran\u2019s top diplomat warned Thursday, raising the stakes as Washington and Riyadh weigh a response to a drone-and-missile strike on the kingdom\u2019s oil industry that shook global energy markets.<\/p>\n The comments by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif represented the starkest warning yet by Iran in a long summer of mysterious attacks and incidents following the collapse of Iran\u2019s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, more than a year after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the accord.<\/p>\n They appeared to be aimed directly at U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who while on a trip to the region earlier referred to Saturday\u2019s attack in Saudi Arabia as an \u201cact of war.\u201d<\/p>\n Pompeo, who was in the United Arab Emirates, dismissed Zarif\u2019s remarks, saying: \u201cI was here (doing) active diplomacy while the foreign minister of Iran is threatening all-out war to fight to the last American.\u201d \u2013 article.<\/p>\n Okay, then. Let them start it first. The schoolyard bully still doesn’t get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"