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President Joe Biden will announce an end Thursday to U.S. support for a grinding five-year Saudi-led military offensive in Yemen that has deepened human suffering in the Arabian peninsula’s poorest country, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.
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A shapely CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL is FIDGETING inside my costume..
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday February 06 2021, @05:12PM
Actually, you're wrong. You build oil pumps on *my* land, those are *my* pumps buddy. Don't like it? Don't build on my land.
"And by "backed" you mean what? If you merely mean that you don't know, well, so what? If you mean specific actions such as planning, funding, etc were carried out, then you'll need evidence not its lack."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_28_pages
"I present as counterevidence, the fact [wikipedia.org] that the Jewish population in Iran went from ~140-150k in 1948 to under 10k by 2012"
Yes, many have left, for one country or another, for one reason or another. But they're neither expelled nor held, they're free to leave or to stay.
"While there might have been this 2k years of peaceful cooperation, that no longer exists."
No, it still exists, but it's between the peoples, not the states. The states hate each other, that's obvious.
"And it sure looks to me like Iran is to blame."
Only if your view is thoroughly coloured by the other sides propaganda. The Israëli state has some rather peculiar ideas, and it hasn't been at all shy about promoting propaganda to confuse the issues. That state has tried several times to spark an exodus from Iran, but it's never been successful there - as it has been elsewhere in the arab world.
"Saudi Arabia (and perhaps Turkey and Egypt) still provides the better deal at present."
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt are oppressive ethnic states that actively discriminate against and persecute Jews. The Israëli state *likes* this because it gives them ready made excuses for implementing an ethnic state themselves, and discriminating against and persecuting arabs. "See, there's tons of nations for arabs, there's even several for Turks, there's only one for Jews" they like to say. Our neighbors sins provide covers for our own, you see.
But a decent state, a state of its citizens in that place, would be much more interested in dealing with a nation which is closer to our own ideals, which is not actively oppressive and tyrannical. And Iran would fit that bill much better than any of the states you mentioned.
"should (or rather when) Iran finally succeed at developing viable nuclear weapons."
If Iran wanted a nuclear weapon, they would have had one long before now.
The real reason they don't have one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei%27s_fatwa_against_nuclear_weapons
"I tire of how many decades of bad behavior on the part of Iran is excused merely because they got treated bad way back when. Iran needs to change."
Iran could say the same of you. How impressed would you be? How likely to care?