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    New York Times: Saudi checkbook diplomacy has had little influence in Iraq

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    New York Times: Saudi checkbook diplomacy has had little influence in Iraq Empty New York Times: Saudi checkbook diplomacy has had little influence in Iraq

    Post by Rocky Tue 15 May 2018, 2:31 am

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    New York Times: Saudi checkbook diplomacy has had little influence in Iraq

    The New York Times reported that Iran's forces or allied groups are now on the threshold of Israel and Saudi Arabia, stating that Iran maintains a strong network that defends its interests beyond its borders.
    The Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, have spent billions of dollars on advanced weapons over the years, but have yet to prove they can use them effectively. They have engaged in an air war against the Houthis in Yemen, noting that the "checkbook diplomacy" they relied on has brought little influence in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
    Iran has developed ways to build strategic relations that do not require large military spending that it can not afford anyway.
    "The money not only strengthens the network of relationships; it is the ideology and the willingness of the Iranians to take risks and engage to achieve the goal," the paper quoted Randa Salim, analyst at the Middle East Institute in Washington, as saying. "The Saudis do not have this kind of tool."
    "Iran is not as strong as we think, its economy is very weak and besieged, so it has to show strength to protect itself," said Basil Salloukh, a professor of political science at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. Repeat it elsewhere. "
    Iran has invested so much in relations with alternative actors that share much of Iran's Shiite ideology and sense of the oppressed position in Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere. After the United States overthrew Iraq's dictatorship in 2003, Iran went there with weapons provided to the militias, And supported the political parties to make Iraq enter the circle of influence, indicating that Iran deployed fighters after the invasion of the Arab Spring uprisings earlier this decade to the governments of Syria and Yemen, and in the chaos of the long civil war in Syria, Iran took advantage of the opportunity to build a military infrastructure there.

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