{"id":13704,"date":"2015-10-22T07:34:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13704"},"modified":"2015-10-22T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:34:48","slug":"proxy-war-no-more-qatar-threatens-military-intervention-in-syria-alongside-saudi-turkish-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13704","title":{"rendered":"“Proxy” War No More: Qatar Threatens Military Intervention In Syria Alongside “Saudi, Turkish Brothers”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Proxy” War No More: Qatar Threatens Military Intervention In Syria Alongside “Saudi, Turkish Brothers”<\/a><\/h3>\n

Earlier this week, Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir\u00a0had the following message<\/a>\u00a0for Tehran:<\/p>\n

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“We wish that Iran would change its policies and stop meddling in the affairs of other countries in the region, in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. We will make sure that we confront Iran’s actions and shall use all our political, economic and military powers to defend our territory and people.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In short, Riyadh and its allies in Doha and the UAE are uneasy about the fact that the P5+1 nuclear deal is set to effectively remove Iran from the pariah state list just as Tehran is expanding its regional influence via its\u00a0Shiite militias<\/a>\u00a0in Iraq, the ground operation in Syria, and through the Houthis in Yemen.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the fact that Tehran has more of an arm\u2019s length relationship with the Houthis than it does with Hezbollah and its proxy armies in Iraq, the Saudis have been able to effectively counter anti-Hadi forces in Yemen without risking a direct conflict with Iran, but make no mistake, Sana\u2019a is not the prize here. Yemen is a side show. The real fight is for the political future of Syria and for control of Iraq once the US finally packs up and leaves for good. Iran is winning on both of those fronts.<\/p>\n

Over the last several weeks, we and others have suggested that one should not simply expect Washington, Riyadh, Ankara, and Doha to go gently into that good night in Syria after years of providing support for the various Sunni extremist groups fighting to destabilize the regime. There\u2019s just too much at stake.<\/p>\n

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“Proxy” War No More: Qatar Threatens Military Intervention In Syria Alongside “Saudi, Turkish Brothers” Earlier this week, Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir\u00a0had the following message\u00a0for Tehran: “We wish that Iran would change its policies and stop meddling in the affairs of other countries in the region, in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. We will make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4723,8400,10126,3039,441,1150,1026,1246,694,698,701,776,2662,818,827,834,862,901,4318],"class_list":["post-13704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-ankara","tag-doha","tag-heaths","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-proxy-war","tag-qatar","tag-riyadh","tag-russia","tag-sanaa","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-tehran","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war","tag-yemen","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13705,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions\/13705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}