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Those cultural ties are meaningless since they don’t impact state policyYou can work with the Saudis as much as you can work with the Americans. Even less. Khomeini, the founder of the 1979 revolution, literally said that even if we forgive what the Americans have done, we will never forgive what the Saudis have done.
The normalization of our ties with the Saudis didn't stop them from trying to overthrow our system the first chance they got, did it? They pursued the exact same policies after normalization, only more passively.
Bahrain is a semi-Iranian state. So are the Emirates and Kuwait. All have large "Ajam" populations, very friendly towards Iran and Iranians. I cannot believe you think we have more aligned interests with the Saudis than the Emiratis, Bahrainis or Kuwaitis. The only aligned interest that the Islamic Republic and Saudi Arabia can have in common is to destroy the Persian/Iranian culture. I cannot think of anything else.
Afghanistan and Tajikistan are landlocked countries but they should be our close allies. The fact that they are not is one of the failures of the Islamic Republic in its foreign policies like million other failures they have had in the past 47 years.Those cultural ties are meaningless since they don’t impact state policy
By this logic our closest strategic allies should be Afghanistan and Tajikistan
I actually agree those countries should be our closest allies, but that’s because the cultural ties are meaningfully reflected in their society and political echelons. Tajiks are the closest thing we have to natural allies and many of them in Afghanistan even identify as ‘east Iranian’Afghanistan and Tajikistan are landlocked countries but they should be our close allies. The fact that they are not is one of the failures of the Islamic Republic in its foreign policies like million other failures they have had in the past 47 years.
Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, even Uzbekistan, they all should have close ties with Iran. We have failed to do that due to our incompetence. The same goes for Bahrain, Kuwait and the Emirates.
You can suck up to Saudi Arabia as much as you want. It's just another futile policy like your one-sided love for Palestine, Syria or Iraq. It will lead to nowhere.
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I lost track how many times he has flip flopped . By now anyone with a half brain knows everything is about market manipulation. Finally, president natanyaboo made it clear no peace until the last goy drops .
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