Israel given air space over Saudi Arabia to attack Iran In the Middle East, the enemy of my enemy is my friend

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA—According to a US defense source in the Middle East, “The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way. They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren’t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [US] State Department.”

The Israelis would target four chief nuclear sites: Natanz and Qom, which house uranium enrichment facilities, Isfahan’s gas storage development, and Arak’s heavy water reactor which all lie up to 2,250 kilometers or 1,400 miles away. The open skies above Saudi Arabia would significantly shorten the distance, perhaps enough to spare the Israeli jets an in-flight refueling.

Saudi Arabia, a fair-weather friend of the United States maintains an unstable relationship with Iran’s theocracy and share Israel’s position that a nuclear capable Iran would mean a rouge state with the most powerful of weapons could launch unprovoked or pre-emptive attacks to further destabilize the region or to embark on an imperial march.

Tensions between Iran and Israel are ever present in the area and neighboring countries fear the worst if Israel is attacked—because they believe it is them that could be next.

-- Killswitch Politick

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