Guest piece by Jean-François Seznec on the Leveretts' Race for
Iran blog.
Seen from Washington, Saudi Arabia seems to speak with a forked tongue on
Iran. On the one hand, the Saudis are telling the United States that under no
circumstances should it bomb Iran, or allow Israel to do so. On the other
hand, the Saudis are also letting it be known that they are worried and quite
sure that Iran is building nuclear weapons.
It seems that, in fact, the Saudis are more worried about potential
U.S. military action against Iran than they are about the Iranians' ability
actually to obtain nuclear weapons. The Saudis may not express this view
clearly enough to change views on Capitol Hill, but the U.S. executive branch
is probably quite aware of Saudi worries about the prospect of U.S. military
intervention in Iran.