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Gulf war jitters -- Commentary
Arnaud De Borchgrave, 2009-04-14 (Tuesday), UPI
WASHINGTON -- Gulf Cooperation Council members -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman -- are getting ready for what many now assume will be retaliation from Iran following Israeli bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities later this year.

Up and down the Persian Gulf, Patriot missile batteries have been quietly deployed around key oil installations. The Patriot system is designed to detect, target and then hit incoming missiles that may be no more than 10 to 20 feet long and flying at three to five times the speed of sound. Iran has hundreds of missiles and rockets.

There is also a steady traffic in and out of Washington of high-ranking GCC military and defense officials, including army, air force and navy chiefs. Gulf rulers are fearful Israel's new government, headed by the tough, uncompromising Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will walk away from any possibility of a Palestinian solution. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said as much when he made clear "we are no longer bound by the previous government's undertakings for the negotiation of a Palestinian state." The Annapolis accord of 2007 for a two-state solution? Didn't happen on our watch, said Israel's new governing team. Lieberman even wants to strip any rights from Arab Israelis who are disloyal to the Jewish state.

Undeterred, George Mitchell, the new super negotiator for a Middle East settlement, went back to the region for the third time since Barack Obama became president of the United States. He sees a glimmer of hope for a peace deal with Syria that would detach the ruling dictatorship from its close ties with Iran. But a Netanyahu government in Israel is not about to give up control of the Golan Heights it has occupied since the 1967 Six Day War.

While Iran may unclench its fist in words, as President Obama unclenched America's, no one in Israel, and very few in other countries, believe Iran's theocrats will relinquish the nuclear ambitions they have been working on secretly for the past quarter of a century. Netanyahu echoed near-unanimous Israeli feelings when he said an Iranian bomb, coupled with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats of destruction against the Jewish state, is an "existential crisis" that Israel cannot and will not ignore.

Israel's moderate President Shimon Peres added a stern warning. If forthcoming talks with Iran don't yield results, he admonished, "we'll strike." But, he added, this cannot be done without the United States. Israel's military intelligence chief, Amos Yadlin, told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the emergence of a nuclear arsenal in Iran is now "mainly dependent on a political decision."

The assumption among most GCC rulers is that Israel will launch bombers against some of Iran's 27 nuclear sites as soon as it becomes clear the mullahs won't agree to surrender their nuclear option at upcoming six-power talks. The United States and Iran will be at the same negotiating table -- along with China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany -- for the first time since the Iranian Revolution ousted the shah 30 years ago.

Iran's next presidential elections are scheduled for June 14, when Ahmadinejad may lose the presidency to a candidate judged by Western powers to be comparatively moderate. But the latest word from Iran watchers is that the supreme religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, favors the re-election of his extremist protege. This would be another green light for the Netanyahu coalition government to order an attack.

Interestingly enough, not all the ruling Sunni families in the gulf are against an Israeli attempt to disrupt Iran's nuclear plans. Most feel threatened by nukes in the hands of a Shiite clerical regime that dreams of dominating the gulf, as the shah once did when Britain in 1968 gave up all its commitments east of Suez. In 1971, the shah seized three strategic islands near the Strait of Hormuz -- Abu Musa and Lesser and Greater Tunb -- that Britain had entrusted to the ruler of Abu Dhabi. The mullahs refused to return them -- and then militarized them with naval guns.

There is plenty of tinder up and down the gulf for a major conflagration throughout the region should Israel strike Iran. The mullahs with their revolutionary guards and far-flung intelligence services possess formidable asymmetrical retaliatory capabilities. They also have at their subversive disposal Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza coupled with a growing influence in the West Bank.

Morocco recently severed diplomatic relations with Iran after its agents were caught proselytizing against Sunni Islam and King Mohammed VI. Dubai, one of the seven emirates in the United Arab Emirates, has 400,000 Iranian residents -- including scores of undercover agents. Saudi Arabia's eastern province, where most its oil fields are located, as well as the world's largest offshore oil terminal at Ras Tanura and the kingdom's oil nerve center at Abqaiq, also has a large Shiite minority. And in the kingdom of Bahrain, headquarters for the U.S. 5th Fleet, a majority of the population is Shiite and subject to frequent agitation against the ruling Sunni family.

Qatar, which now enjoys the world's highest standard of living with a per capita income of $78,000, straddles the gulf fence with both ears to the ground, a somewhat ungainly posture but one that's deemed far more secure. The firebrand satellite television station al-Jazeera was created by Qatar's ruling al-Thani family and is headquartered in Doha, the capital. But the United States was also authorized to build a base in Qatar with one of the world's longest military runways. Qatar is forward headquarters for the Tampa-based Central Command headed by Gen. David Petraeus. For the past 15 years the charismatic Sheika Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, the Qatari emir's wife, spearheaded an educational drive that brought several leading U.S. universities to establish branches in Qatar.

If attacked, Iran could also jeopardize an orderly U.S. military exit from neighboring Iraq in 2010. The two countries fought a war from 1980-1988 that killed about 1 million soldiers from both countries. Iran is influential in the western region of Afghanistan.

Oman, which faces Iran across the Strait of Hormuz, has always made good relations with Iran a top priority. But the prudent Omanis also have the gulf's best internal security system.

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2007-05-22We're Number One! America Leads the World in War Profits
2007-05-26Downplaying Activities That Dictate Certain Geopolitical Goals
2007-05-23Palestine: Forty Years of Occupation
2007-05-26ROVING IN THE RED ZONE; The true heart of darkness
2007-06-06The wars down the years -- Forty years of conflict in the Middle East
2007-05-02Country Reports on Terrorism -- Chapter 2 -- Country Reports: East Asia and Pacific Overview
2007-05-04Five events that changed the world in 2006
2007-05-03Military Responses to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Comments
2007-05-03Timeline: Al-Qaeda
2006-11-07China's Policy in the Gulf Region: From Neglect to Necessity
2006-10-25Radioactive Nationalism
2006-10-13Interview Vali Nasr
2006-09-24SPIEGEL Interview with Syrian President Bashar Assad
2006-10-05Symposium: Why the Mullahs Murdered Atefeh Rajabi
2006-05-01As Syria's Influence in Lebanon Wanes, Iran Moves In
2006-09-12The Bubble of American Supremacy
2006-09-12New Glory
2006-08-30Opinion: Iran's nuclear menace
2007-03-30China vs Japan: FTAs, oil and Taiwan
2007-03-28Arabs to renew Arab peace plan at Saudi summit
2007-04-10Downsizing -- WHAT THE ‘SURGE’ REALLY MEANS
2007-04-09Where Plan A left Ahmad Chalabi
2007-03-24Dickey: Drop Fossilized Thinking on Iraq
2007-03-05Timeline: al-Qaida
2007-02-01Chirac’s Second Interview on Iran
2007-01-23Al Jazeera's Global Gamble- A PEJ Interview - Al Jazeera Timeline
2007-01-25Arafat Timeline
2007-02-20FT interview: Mohamed ElBaradei
2007-02-19Hating America
2006-12-09Backgrounder: The Implications of 'Civil War' in Iraq
2006-12-15The Israel Lobby
2008-01-25Dhimmi Shelter
2008-02-06How Bush Created a Theocracy in Iraq
2008-02-02Escaping “Submission"
2008-01-06Press Conference by the President
2008-01-06Concern about 'sovereign wealth funds' spreads to Washington
2008-01-12Bush meets top Iraq aides in Kuwait
2007-12-02The Road From Annapolis
2007-12-03Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and U.S. Policy
2007-11-21Iran: As One Door Closes In Nuclear Dispute, Others Open
2007-11-21Wars to Watch Out For
2007-12-13Crisis of Faith in the Muslim World
2007-12-22Bush/Gore Second Presidential Debate October 11
2007-12-22Iran - Nuclear Chronology - 2006
2007-09-09No Refuge Here: Iraqis Flee, but Where?
2007-09-09It's the Demography, Stupid
2007-09-24Russia bolsters ties with Iran
2007-09-24Iranian president uses TV interview to deny rush to war with US
2007-09-24Betrayed -- The Iraqis who trusted America the most
2007-09-13Muslim world celebrates start of Ramadan
2007-09-16How Al-Qa'idah 'martyrs' enter Iraq
2007-11-12IRAN AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
2007-11-09A Widening Gulf
2007-11-09HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE?
2007-10-21Iran tops agenda as Olmert visits Europe
2007-10-23Torture in the Name of Freedom
2007-10-08'I Am not a Warmonger'
2008-05-26The Failed States Index 2007
2008-05-19Egypt: On the Brink of Revolution?
2008-06-25HOW HEZBOLLAH DEFEATED ISRAEL -- PART 2: Winning the ground war
2008-06-27Daughter of the Enlightenment
2008-06-21Jimmy Carter and Apartheid
2008-06-08Treacherous Alliance
2008-04-13Holistic Integrative Analysis of International Change: A Commentary on Teaching Emergent Futures
2008-04-23NATO and European Energy Security
2008-04-22A Warning to Africa: The New U.S. Imperial Grand Strategy
2008-03-24Globalization And The Development Of Underdevelopment Of The Third World
2008-03-03Mead: Bush Administration Gets Improving ‘Grades’ in First Year of Second Term’s Foreign Policy
2008-03-02The world as Shakespearean tragedy
2008-02-22Conversations in International Relations: Interview with John J. Mearsheimer (Part I)