Bak kulissene maser Saudi-Arabia om at USA må slå til mot Iran. Saudierne håper at Iran skal begå feilen som åpner for angrep. Kan Libanon være en slik feilkalkulasjon?

The risk of a U.S.-Iranian confrontation is growing in part because Saudi Arabia and other U.S. allies in the Middle East are so eager for it. “Behind closed doors, we are praying that the Iranians will make a mistake so that you will have a reason to attack,” one Saudi told me this week. Another prominent Arab official said he hopes the U.S. will strike Iranian training camps just over the border from Iraq.

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