{"id":11574,"date":"2011-10-19T09:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T05:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=11574"},"modified":"2011-10-19T09:20:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T05:20:19","slug":"theyll-be-quaking-in-their-sandals-in-riyadh-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/theyll-be-quaking-in-their-sandals-in-riyadh-not\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;ll be quaking in their sandals in Riyadh. Not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Iran.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11577\" title=\"Iran\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Iran-e1319001591263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Iran-e1319001591263.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Iran-e1319001591263-145x92.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>Let no one say that some Iranian Ministers do not have a good sense of <a href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/articles\/2011\/10\/17\/172261.html\">humour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Karim Abedi, a member of Iran\u2019s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian parliament, confidently stated that \u2018Iran was capable of occupying Saudi Arabia if it chooses [sic] to do so\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s military forces have the ability to strip Saudi Arabia of its security whenever it wants and Saudi Arabia will not be capable of responding.<\/p>\n<p>Wholly without irony with this belligerent statement, he was replying to the accusation that Iran was plotting to assassinate the KSA Ambassador in Washington DC [my thoughts on which will appear soon].<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that Iran has infiltrated Israel with spies so that it now knows \u2018critical information\u2019 to be used should the two states ever come to blows. I\u2019m sure that those in Tel Aviv are terrified.<\/p>\n<p>Of course he sounds like an ass to us, but we\u2019re hardly the intended targets: all politics is domestic, let\u2019s not forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID ROBERTS: Sometimes politicians say things of such breathtaking stupidity that it stops you completely in your tracks.  Like this one from an Iranian member of parliament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,82,149,60,482],"tags":[18306,4574,18311,1031,18275,2904,8942],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}