{"id":47875,"date":"2019-08-18T06:03:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T11:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47875"},"modified":"2019-08-18T06:03:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T11:03:47","slug":"us-joins-secret-talks-between-israel-and-uae-targeting-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47875","title":{"rendered":"US Joins Secret Talks Between Israel and UAE Targeting Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2019\/08\/15\/us-joins-secret-talks-between-israel-and-uae-targeting-iran\/\">US Joins Secret Talks Between Israel and UAE Targeting Iran<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UAE trying to balance regional interests with keeping US happy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secret talks have been ongoing between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, focused on sharing intelligence against Iran and possibly military cooperation. The talks have progressed to the point that the US is now joining the talks too.<br><br>Israel and the UAE have some security ties, but don\u2019t have public relations. That they\u2019re discussing Iran reflects Israel\u2019s long-standing hostility toward Iran, and the UAE\u2019s close proximity to Iran.<br><br>While some are presenting the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/15\/us\/politics\/us-iran-uae-israel.html\">US joining of the talks as proof they are making progress,<\/a>&nbsp;a lot isn\u2019t understood about what\u2019s going on, and particularly unclear is what the UAE is trying to work out.&nbsp;<br><br>The UAE seems to be trying to balance multiple interests, as they\u2019ve tried to talk to Iran about maritime security in recent days, and seem not to be looking to pick fights with them. That\u2019s in stark contrast to Israel, for whom picking fights with Iran is the centerpiece of decades of foreign policy.&nbsp;<br><br>It\u2019s clear that the UAE has an interest in keeping the US happy, and that probably requires keeping Israel at lease sort of placated in this regard. So while they aren\u2019t trying to start anything against Iran they\u2019re trying to walk the tightrope of balancing both sides to keep everyone satisfied.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Joins Secret Talks Between Israel and UAE Targeting Iran UAE trying to balance regional interests with keeping US happy Secret talks have been ongoing between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, focused on sharing intelligence against Iran and possibly military cooperation. The talks have progressed to the point that the US is now joining [&hellip;]<\/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":[6400,13009,2428],"class_list":["post-47875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-antiwar-com","tag-jason-ditz","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47875","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=47875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47876,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47875\/revisions\/47876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}