Golfstaaten vrs. Iran

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Der neokonservative Propagandasturm im Wasserglas ist verzogen. Das schafft Raum für die weniger reisserischen Interpretationen der von Wikileaks veröffentlichten Dokumente:

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Neo-con narrative sidelines Palestinians
By Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - Gleeful Israeli leaders and their neo-conservative supporters here have spent much of the past week insisting that the United States State Department cables published by WikiLeaks prove that Sunni Arab leaders in the Middle East are far more preoccupied with the threat posed by an ascendant and possibly nuclear Iran than with a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But a closer look at the relevant cables shows a far more consistent message to Washington coming from its Arab allies: that curbing Iran and resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are inextricably linked and that the most effective way of achieving the former is make tangible progress on the latter.
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Gulf war cries over Iran exaggerated
By Gareth Porter and Jim Lobe
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The notion that these leaders, like Israel, favor a military solution to Iran's nuclear program has become widely accepted by the news media in the past week. In a curtain-raiser to this week's talks in Geneva between Iran and the world's most powerful nations, for example, the Washington Post on Monday asserted that the WikiLeaks disclosure "show[ed] that Persian Gulf leaders have pressed for a military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities."

But a careful reading of all the diplomatic cables reporting the views of Saudi and other Gulf Arab regimes on Iran shows that the Times' account seriously distorted the content - and in the case of the Saudis, ignored the context - of the cables released by WikiLeaks.
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While confirming growing Arab fears about Iran's regional clout and nuclear ambitions, the cables suggest that other Gulf Arab leaders - with the possible exception of Bahrain's King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa, the only regional leader with a majority Shi'ite population - have little or no appetite for military action against Iran.
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