
Xavier Stassen 🇺🇦
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Xavier Stassen 🇺🇦
@1093Xavier
Dark Brandon fanboy, Bourgondiër, hardloper, bankzitter





On January 28, 2026, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. He told him Saudi Arabia respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran. That the Kingdom would not allow its airspace or territory to be used in any military actions against Iran, by any party, regardless of destination. That Saudi Arabia supports resolving disputes through dialogue. Pezeshkian thanked him. Called him a stabilizing force for the region. According to the Washington Post, during that same month, Mohammed bin Salman was making multiple private phone calls to Donald Trump urging the United States to attack Iran. The same man. The same month. Possibly the same week. The Post reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that the Crown Prince warned officials Iran would grow stronger if Washington did not strike while it had amassed its largest military force in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His brother, Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, reinforced the message in private meetings with US officials in Washington in late January, warning of consequences of inaction. While publicly holding Iran’s hand, Saudi Arabia was privately loading the gun. One month later, the United States and Israel killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran retaliated against every Gulf state. Missiles struck Riyadh and the Eastern Province. And then came the statement from the Saudi Foreign Ministry that will be studied in diplomatic history courses for generations. Saudi Arabia condemned what it called the blatant and cowardly Iranian attacks. And then the line that collapses the entire architecture into a single sentence: the attacks came, the Ministry said, despite the Iranian authorities knowing that the Kingdom had confirmed it would not allow its airspace or territory to be used to target Iran. They cited their own promise of protection as evidence of Iran’s aggression. The promise they made while privately demanding the strike that provoked the retaliation they then condemned. This is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another. This is something more precise. This is strategic deception across parallel diplomatic channels, where the promise of neutrality was designed from inception to serve as the moral basis for condemning the retaliation against the attack you privately requested. The promise was not broken. The promise was the weapon. Israel lobbied openly. Netanyahu spent years publicly advocating for strikes on Iran. What the Washington Post revealed is that Saudi Arabia ran the same operation from behind a shield of peace and brotherhood. When the shield was no longer needed for protection, it was repurposed as evidence for prosecution. Pezeshkian thanked Mohammed bin Salman for his commitment to regional stability. Thirty one days later, the stability was a crater in central Tehran. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…












Ze kan het niet laten om ons te laten merken dat we een 'klein' land zijn.

Deze @RobJetten bij #nieuwsuur kan Bontenbal nog eens gaan verslaan in zetels over twee weken.





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