Subject: Fw: The Boston Globe July 26, 2015
From: "fariborz fatemi" <[email-masked]>
To: "Fariborz Fatemi" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:21:57 +0000 (UTC)

On Monday, July 27, 2015 2:04 AM, fariborz fatemi <[email-masked]> wrote:

 

  The Boston Globe       July 26, 2015            For biggest threat to Middle East,look at Saudi Arabia Kudosto Stephen Kinzer for his incisive commentary, “A step toward a new Mideast”(Opinion, July 15). President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry deserveimmense credit. With the Iran nuclear deal, they have achieved more than anyother administration.   After the Bush-Cheney fiasco in Iraq, the neocons, theIsrael-can-do-no-wrong crowd and their sycophants in Congress, and think tankshate it that Obama is successfully using diplomacy in conflict resolutions.These forces, with their own agendas, seemingly unlimited money, andmisrepresentation of facts are aided and abetted by so-called status quopowers, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Israel.  Theyhave their counterparts in Iran who will also go to any lengths to scuttle thenuclear deal.  BothObama and his Iranian counterpart, President Hassan Rouhani, know such anagreement is the opening that could lead to solutions to stabilize the MiddleEast.  Nomatter how detractors try to portray Iran as the aggressor, it is Saudi supportof Salafist and Wahhabi jihadi extremists — Al Qaeda, the Nusra Front, andISIS, to name a few — that has set the Middle East aflame. That is the realdanger that can engulf the world, not Iran’s nuclear program. Fariborz S. Fatemi  McLean, Va.  Thewriter is a former professional staff member at the House Foreign AffairsCommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.