Gulf countries want Trump to end Iran war -- but not yet, officials say

[question everything]

Source: WaPo

As the Trump administration makes what it says are initial peace overtures to Iran, U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf, initially skittish about the war, have become fearful of a hasty settlement that leaves the region less stable than it was a month ago, officials and analysts say.

While Iran has been battered by nearly a month of U.S.-Israeli attacks, the war has not succeeded in toppling its government. Instead, it appears to have made the leadership in Tehran even more defiant and hard-line.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are lobbying for a decisive end to the war, through diplomatic or military means, according to a person briefed on that matter and three officials involved in the affairs of the region, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share details with the media.

If Tehran doesn’t agree to severe restrictions on its missile, drone and nuclear programs, Saudi and Emirati leadership have indicated they would support an escalated military campaign aimed at pressuring concessions at the negotiating table, the officials, two European and one Arab, said. Tehran, for its part, says it is not engaged in talks, and does not appear ready to give in.

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[angrychair]

1. Hell no

If Tehran doesn’t agree to severe restrictions on its missile, drone and nuclear programs, Saudi and Emirati leadership have indicated they would support an escalated military campaign aimed at pressuring concessions at the negotiating table, the officials, two European and one Arab, said.

First, let me say, kiss my ass Saudis and UAE. The fucking audacity to say such a thing.
If you want the war to escalate then you use your blood and treasure and not ours to do that.

If I were Iran I would wipe out their oil fields just for suggesting such a cowardly idea, to demand another country use their bodies and money to do something you are not willing to do. Fucking cowards.

The US should immediately suspend all diplomatic relationships with both countries.

I hope that both their countries burn to the ground for even suggesting this.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. Both of these countries

who have used extremist zealots in the past for their own purposes should understand that they are not going to pressure Tehran into capitulation.

[IbogaProject]

3. Tough talk for folks without a hospitible natural environment

They are in the line of fire and from what I read, Iran has been holding out using their newer hypersonic missiles. This is going to get real ugly, no foreign military has ever truly won on the land Iran sits upon. Islam transformed a different sect ther when that arrived culturally.

[Wonder Why]

4. May Allah rain retribution down on those in leadership pushing for war but not on the population of those countries.

Those countries are responsible for much of the misery in the Middle East. They and the dictators in Iran and Israel and the former ones in Libya, Syria, and Iraq have the assets and the ability to fix things but have chosen not to do so. The same goes for the dictator in the U.S.

Greedy dictatorships need to have the dictators receive the retribution.