Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region.
ADEL AL-JUBEIRWe have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.
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That would be a different story. But I don’t think World War III is going to happen in Syria.
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Should we stand by idly while this happens at our doorstep, in one of the countries in which al-Qaida has a huge presence?
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Iran has been a neighbor for millenia, and will continue to be a neighbor for millenia.
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The Iranians should just stay away from us.
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We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment.
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I don’t think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad
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We want to have good ties with the Iranians, but if they want good ties with us
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That involves the establishment of a governing council, which is to take power away from Bashar Assad,
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We don’t tolerate terrorism.
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Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.
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We have a war against Daesh (the Islamic State, or IS) in Syria.
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Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don’t see EU reporting on it.
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We had no other option – there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country.
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We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism.
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The argument is more accurate when one says America is focusing more attention to the Far East.
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