How far can Iran provoke the US before the Biden administration is forced to react?
How far can Iran provoke the US before the Biden administration is forced to react? A series of hushed-up incidents over Saudi Arabia says that it can go very far.
Just two days after Biden’s inauguration, an Iranian drone hit the door of the Saudi royal palace in Riyadh. A month later, both the White House and Saudi officials refuse to release pictures of the (intentionally) minor damage.
And that wasn’t it. Three days later, drones hit both a royal palace in a desert area of the country, as well as a helipad. Unbelievably, that too was buried.
“We would have expected this to dominate the headlines,” a senior source in Israel’s military intelligence (AMAN) told me. “But the Americans want to give negotiations with Iran a chance to work.”
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