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WSJ Reports On The Cold War Between Iran And Saudi Arabia

April 19, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

Bill Spindle and Margaret Coker:

This new Middle East cold war comes complete with its own spy-versus-spy intrigues, disinformation campaigns, shadowy proxy forces, supercharged state rhetoric — and very high stakes.

It seems to me that some western commentators are suddenly waking up to the fact that there’s a regional cold war with Iran, and in this case are mistakingly attributing it to the Arab Spring. In reality, this cold war has been around for a while and we in Lebanon have been living with it for quite some time…