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Thursday, November 16, 2017
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
IDF chief to Saudi media: On Iran, we’re in complete agreement with Saudi Arabia
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWhen asked what Iran wants in the region, Eisenkot says, “The Iranian plan is to control the Middle East by means of two Shiite crescents. The first [runs] from Iran through Iraq to Syria and Lebanon, and the second from Bahrain through to Yemen to the Red Sea.”
“This is what must be prevented in the region,” he says.
“In this matter there is complete agreement between us and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has never been our enemy. It has not fought us nor have we fought it.”
“When I was at a meeting of the [US] Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington and heard what the Saudi representative had to say, I found it identical to what I think in the need to confront Iran and its expansion in the region.”
— Dov Lieber
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