(photo credit: Doug Mills, NYT)
From The Guardian:
Barack Obama has secured support from Gulf leaders for his attempt to reach a nuclear deal with Iran as a summit outside Washington concluded on Thursday with the first glimpses of possible rapprochement on an issue that has alarmed many US allies in the region.
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“The president spoke about the … agreement with Iran and I am here to say that the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) welcomes this agreement and we hope at the same time that this will be a key factor for stability in the region,” said the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, as he stood alongside Obama.
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“We welcome any deal that stops Iran from having a nuclear capability and this is what we have been assured by the US and by the other P5+1 countries – that all pathways to a bomb will be closed to Iran,” the Saudi foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, told reporters in a separate briefing. The P5+1 is a group of six countries negotiating with Iran on its nuclear programme.
http://www.theguardian.com/...
This was one of the neocons favorite bogus arguments against a nuke deal with Iran - that it would enrage and alienate one of our strongest Gulf allies, Saudi Arabia. Now they'll have to invent a new fake reason to oppose the deal. Maybe death panels or something.