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Saudi Arabia Paying American Lobbyists To Spread Anti-Iran Propaganda
Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
Though the Saudi Arabian government publicly declared its tentative support for the widely-praised Iran nuclear deal last month, new reports reveal it is secretly funding propaganda efforts to undermine it. A new group called the American Security Initiative has spent over $6 million on advertisements criticizing the deal — using money supplied by the Saudi monarchy.
The president of the American Security Initiative Norm Coleman is a former Republican senator who now runs the lobbying firm, Hogan Lovells. He is a registered lobbyist for Saudi Arabia and his firm is on retainer for the Saudi monarchy at a rate of $60,000 per month.
According to The Intercept, “In July 2014, Coleman described his work as ‘providing legal services to the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia’ on issues including ‘legal and policy developments involving Iran and limiting Iranian nuclear capability.’”
Other founders of the American Security Initiative include former Senator Joe Lieberman ( a Democrat) and former Senator Saxby Chambliss (a Republican), who works at DLA Piper, yet another firm hired to lobby on behalf of the Saudi monarchy. Opposition to the deal enjoys bipartisan support.
The lobbying effort has run commercials in nine states — Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, Virginia, and West Virginia — and was initiated in partnership with a group called Veterans Against the Deal. One ad features a maimed Iraq War veteran who ominously warns that “Every politician who is involved in this will be held accountable. They will have blood on their hands.”
The Iran deal is set to be voted on in September, but the Saudi government has a vested interest in its failure. This is not only because of longstanding divides between Sunni and Shiite factions, but because relief from economic sanctions on Iran could increase Iran’s oil exports and threaten Saudi dominance of the market, which has already started to wane. Further, as The Intercept observed, “The crises in Syria and in Yemen have become proxy wars between the two nations as Saudi Arabia and Iran are playing an active role in fueling opposing sides in both conflicts.”
Last month, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that the Saudi government had abandoned many of its apprehensions toward the deal, moving to endorse it. However, according to Reuters, an official from the Saudi government revealed that he behind the scenes, the deal is still very much scorned. “We have learned as Iran’s neighbors in the last 40 years that goodwill only led us to harvest sour grapes,” he said on the condition of anonymity.
Though the Saudi monarchy has been widely criticized for its inhumane policies —including everything from brutal beheadings to life-threatening lashes inflicted on bloggers — the government continues to exert powerful influence over American leadership (according to Wikileaks, it has paid for media influence in other countries, as well). It rivals the Israeli lobby, which has also invested heavily in demonizing the Iran nuclear agreement. Last month, Israeli lobbying group AIPAC spent $20 million in 20 states to advertise against the agreement. Opposition to the deal comes even as the crux of the accord cripples Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
The glaring, underlying irony of the deal is that three of its biggest opponents — a bipartisan assembly of American lawmakers, the Saudi monarchy, and the Israeli government — are a far greater threat to peace than the admittedly oppressive Iranian government. The lawmakers who oppose the deal are the same ones who advocate perpetual American war, which has killed countless innocent civilians. Saudi airstrikes against the Houthi insurgency in Yemen are repeatedly slaughtering civilians. Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine creates a steady stream of needless innocent deaths.
In the face of the new revelations about Saudi manipulation of public perception surrounding the Iran deal, statements from the monarchy are now tinged with irony:
“Given that Iran is a neighbour, Saudi Arabia hopes to build with her better relations in all areas on the basis of good neighborliness and non-interference in internal affairs,” a Saudi official said last month.
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Why not just pay the Congressmen directly? Seems more efficient and gets good results.
well.. they are just as F'ed as the rest of the world.. their cash reserves are falling fast.. they have incentive to hurt Iran ability to produce oil..
Saudi Businessmen Look to Stabilize Oil Prices $USO
I actually had a former lobbyist tell me how it was done and I was amazed he was still alive.
yeah, like that guy who had a lifelong wish to have sex with a horse, and it finally killed him....
So Faux News can make them bid for air time vs. AIPAC... who's lies are worth more per second?
spoken like a true dumbocrat, an enemy friendly, America and Jew hating dumbocrat.
let me guess, barack TWICE?
why "Jew hating"?
Zionist Jews + Saudi Money
You cannot get more rotten than that, and they have USA by the balls.
dcohen - "more rotton"? Just did when you stunk up the place.
If oil goes to 35-30 a BBL sp500 will be below 1500. and the gains from low oil prices/gasoline will be meaningless when no one has jobs..
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2015/08/transocean-share...
My cousin lives in Houston and says despite what MSM says, it's a bloodbath for engineers and actually anyone related to energy. Even restaurant business is down near the energy copr buildings so manyhave been axed. Worse yet, it looks like energy will continue otget Monkey Hammered for the foreseeable future.
Barry really put the screw to Putin and Iran by destrouying the energy sector and losing so many American jobs.
I lived in Houston for about 35 years and through oil busts in the 1980's and 1990's. Those times were very hard on the petroleum engineers and geologists. When the oil business hurts, Houston hurts.
Time to buy?
No.
Yes. Anything but Gold and Silver. Twitter, Facebook. "Social" or "media" or "hooker" sector related stuff are a screaming buy, anything which is neither useful nor necessary. Back up the truck, buy with both hands, reach for a bucket not a nimble. There is still plenty of liquidity on the sidelines, Chinese, Russians, Arabs, all of them are just eager to enter the US stock market BIIIIG TIME. Risk is ON, tell Katy to bar the door. Next fabrications on NFP, Claims will be an enormous upside-surprise to everyone, best since Lehmann. A big kahuna of prosperity is just around the corner, enough to refill Lake Mead forever. Don't hesitate buying on margin, don't fear agressively shorting Gold on margin, or better Silver. These barbaric pet rocks will be completely obliterated, cramerized into terminal nothingness. Green weeds everywhere, recession is over (although the mental recession has still some way to go). Current weakness is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Corzine says.
P.S. Tell me if you need a moronic /sarc.
Try the silver futures contract, 2000 oz vs. only 100 oz contract for gold.
Short silver, and keep adding on contracts with your daily increase in equity
/double/sarc
Waitaminnit... "Chinese, Russians, ....all of them are just eager to enter the US stock market BIIIIG TIME..."
BWAAAAA HAAA HAAA HAA!
How do you turn dirty money into "clean" money doing that?!!?!?
HAAAA HAA HAA!
Layoffs started in my state as it dropped below $60/bbl. This won't play well.
But hey, the guys in charge can fix it all.
Yup. And guess who spreads anti fossil fuel propaganda? Al Gore who has hundreds of millions in green energy investments.
It's like a kinder gentler form of Goebbels. Same shit different toilet.
petrospeak dubbing down, down.
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So
No doubt the evil Saudis want the US to kill a few million Iranians for them. And they want to do it cheaply by hiring a few lobbyists
sounds familiar, but they don't control US media so it may cost alot more than Operation Freedumb
On the practical side it at least keeps us selling them weapons. Their army is not large enough to take on Iran alone. I wonder how well their ground forces would even perform. I suspect they are a soft lot, like most countries their.
On the conspiracy side, it makes us mercenaries.
I suggest all those Muslim immigrants fleeing to Europe be redirected to Saudi Arabia which is the home of their Sunni brethren. They can be armed and trained to take out Iran and Yemen. This solves several problems at once.
They don't need an army. They can PAY to have others do their bidding.
IIRC, part of the petrodollar agreement was that the US would fight Saudi's battles for them. Apparently SA was not too happy when our congress refused to allow Obama to destroy Syria on behalf of the Saudis 2-3 years ago.
Works for everyone else, so follow the model.
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And were we expecting anything less from our Zionist ass-puppet?...
No worries though!!!
I'm certain that Saudi Arabia will be making a handsome profit along with their Israeli handlers to "redistribute" the destroyed looted antiquities from places like Nimrod and Hatra that have been razed by their bought and paid for mercs within ISIS...
My understanding is that Paul Wolfowitz was able to get some handsome artifacts out of the museum(s) of antiquities in Afghanistan and Iraq for his "private collection" as well as Paul Bremer...
Like all thefts they and their accomplices will be long gone and by that time they will be in the hands of other private collectors and European or American museums –no doubt!!!
lots of Zio-troll downvoters tonight, but no rebuttals... typical
hiding in the shadows, how dare you speak the truth!
You don't rebut stupidity. Where is the evidence in the orginal post. There is none. It is they typical conspiracy swill.
Maybe you want to spend time rebutting the well known fact the moon is made of green cheese, too or that there is an alien outpost on Pluto.
I'll rebut some stupidity right here, since your post is stupid. If you cant see the Z connection then you're either an idiot or are benefitting monetarily from the setup.
They need Tehran in one piece though ;-) no profit in bombing the Museum Of Modern Art and damaging $3 Billion worth of fine art pieces :-)
Right, they make the same accusations that Put in has 1,000 of people on Kremlin payroll spreading black lies about the azov battalion which is really composed of sweet kids with fun tattoos.
I can't believe this..our staunch ally.. Saudia Arabia..speaks with a forked tongue...be careful..there are snakes out there...
Imagine being one of these dickless camel-blowing Saudi Royals. They have infinite money, yet are not competent to do the simplest thing themselves.
At least the Iranians have been over here infesting our best universities for decades. At least the Iran-rags show up.
Iran has the Dummycrats working for them for free, so the Saudis have to pay up to maintain parity.
If you oppose Sheik 0bama, you will pay a price.
SO they have replaced the repubi-cunts who had them hold the hostages and traded the arms to them through Israel?
I guess they own BOTH parties...
old soviet anti tank missile vs saudi abrams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0nDHV_mkiY
Saudi can't fight against Iran...it will be an ass wiping
a supposed 35 year old m1 abrams standing still hit by an airborne missile/rocket..whoop-de-doo. ww2 fighters with .50 cals were taking out german panzers no problem. don't see the point.
They bought a lot more than that. Who do you think bought the federal government, and all the governors, judges and as many perfessors, priests, doctors, cops and lawyers as they deemed necessary? Certainly not just the Jindals, Windsors, Mongrel Master Race and Chinese... read about Al Gore and his 2 Clintons.
When the Iranians get the bomb, the hard decision for them will be where to strike first -- Israel or Saudi Arabia. I have been assured that SA would be the higher value target.
Think you're right and it's a little Goldfinger-ish.
Nuke your neighbor's oil production so your own oil is worth much more..... Pussy Galore and Odd Job would be proud.
No, nuke the head of the snake and milk the rest of it.
I'm no fan of the Saudis but for them to pay lobbyists to stymie Persian weapons development is better than US taxpayers paying billions to help Iran make nukes.
except Iran isn't working on a nuclear weapon. You've simply been told they are over and over and over by a largely Jewish-and-Zionist, corporate owned and run media.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/08/20/conservative-media-run-with-...
They're lying to you.
Again.
"Weapons of mass destruction" all over again. Enough said.
This is true, but it's not just "conservatives" and you can't rely on Media Matters for anything. They are complete hacks for the power monopoly flacking for Democrats and reinforcing the lie that there is a difference. For a recent example, see there horrible rationalization of Hillary's lies...it's the worst example of patronizing a reader and relying on fallacies of argument. So I would never ever ever ever cite them as a source. There are plenty better out there.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/08/12/myths-and-facts-on-hillary-c...
Maybe we should invest in lobbyists - seems to be a growth industry.
maybe sanders is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G59mNNfLZx8
They are all members of the same club. They dont need no stinkin lobbyists.
well we know ALL congressmen are whores and saudia arabia has enough money to pAY THE whores asking price so it appears iran is FUCKED
This one is the best thing I've read in a while, though it is in fact a couple/few years old {I've been busy}:
Why lie if there is any evidence Iran is developing breakout capacity {while being monitored, unlike Ersatz Israel}?
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/08/20/conservative-media-run-with-...
Arrrgh, bitchez
George bin Laden 911 treason
Bandar Bush Gulf war treasons, Israel treason, fraudulent oil price treason, cocaine treason, anglo sex slave treason
G Walker Bush 911 treason, Gulf war treasons, fraudulent oil price treason, cocaine treason, anglo sex slave treason, Anglo-American subjugation treason
Marvin Bush 911 treason, Gulf war treasons, fraudulent oil price treason, cocaine treason, anglo sex slave treason, Anglo-American subjugation treason
Jeb Bush 2000 election treason, Gulf war treasons, fraudulent oil price treason, Chinese meth treason, cocaine treason, anglo sex slave treason, Anglo-American subjugation treason
Neil Bush 911 treason, Gulf war treasons, fraudulent oil price treason, cocaine treason, anglo sex slave treason, Anglo-American subjugation treason
G H Walker Bush Bay of Pigs, JFK treason, Hinckley treason, Gulf wars treason, fraudulent oil price treason, AIDS, cocaine treason, Iran/Contra treason, open borders treason, anglo sex slave treason, Anglo-American subjugation treason
Prescott Bush FR treason, WW2 treason, nukes, ICBMs, CIA treason, NSA treason, anglo sex slave treason, Anglo-American subjugation treason
Herbert Walker FR treason, WW2 treason, anglo sex slave treason, Anglo-American subjugation treason
EH Harriman FR treason, WW1 treason, weapon grade anthrax, anglo sex slave treason, Anglo-American subjugation treason
Wrothchildren The Vatican from Phillip IV, Spanish inquisition treason, Martin Luther treason, French revolution treason, scionism treason, Frankists, Bogomils, commie suckers but not actual commies, nazi suckers, democrat suckers, facist suckers but not actual facists, Palestinian genocide, all organized crime treason - all the result of circumcision.
I know, I left out alot.
Research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM
CIA testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM
Bush: http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography
Castrated Wrothschildren: http://iamthewitness.com/books/Andrew.Carrington.Hitchcock/Synagogue.of....
Clearly there is a problem with circumcision.
Miffed;-)
The Truth About Circumcision (with video of one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_zkKciuIpA
Circumcision, Divorce and Male Disposability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Ved1maLBk
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other (prosecute the outlaws). - US Founding Father President John Adams
On a lighter note,
The Fascists That Surround You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCIXnn9KVeY
25 years ago it was Iraqi soldiers stealing baby incubators and dumping the newborns on the floor to die.
It's gonna be hard to top that lie!
It was originally used against the Germans in WWI
Thats nothing, Israel is even smarter, they actually get paid for that - from US itself ;).
Poor poor Iran....
Oh, you mean that hasn't been going on since oil was a commodity. I don't see how politicians can even speak without pissing off someone who gave them money.
It may be slimy (Lieberman - yeccchhh) but it is legal as long as they register as foreign paid stooges.