SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: According to The New York Times, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman has urged the United States to continue its attacks on Iran.

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According to The New York Times, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman has urged the United States to continue its attacks on Iran. This position is disturbingly reminiscent of Saudi Arabia’s — and other Arab countries’ — alignment with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. Back then, Riyadh and its Arab partners provided financial, logistical, and diplomatic support to Saddam’s regime as it waged a brutal eight-year conflict against Iran, resulting in immense regional instability and setting in motion dynamics that ultimately proved detrimental to them as well. History has a way of repeating its warnings. Today, they seem to be repeating the same miscalculations without having learned any lessons from the past. So far, out of nobility, honor, and prudence — ever mindful of the unity and well-being of the broader Islamic world — Iran has not openly confronted them. That, however, does not mean Iran has been unaware of these schemes, this duplicity, and these plots directed against it and the region. Tehran has long observed the maneuvers while exercising self-restraint. Until now, many in Iran even argued that such actions were largely the result of U.S. pressure on its Persian Gulf neighbors. But these latest revelations demonstrate that, alongside the obvious material complicity — such as permitting the U.S. to use their territory and airspace to launch attacks on Iran — there is also a clear *mens rea* at work. In other words, these are not merely passive or coerced decisions. Arab leaders are consciously and deliberately taking steps to harm Iran, fully aware that the United States seeks domination over Iran's resources and that Israel is poised to turn Iran into a failed state. Such shortsighted behavior — siding with the U.S. and Israel against a Muslim neighbor with deep civilizational ties — and participation in what Iran perceives as an existential threat risk igniting wider conflagrations that no one can contain.

6:36 AM · Mar 25, 2026