{"id":19156,"date":"2013-11-25T16:18:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T23:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19156"},"modified":"2013-11-25T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T23:18:43","slug":"shut-out-saudi-prince-bandar-attends-anti-iran-meeting-to-pout-and-whine-with-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19156","title":{"rendered":"Shut-out, Saudi Prince Bandar attends anti-Iran meeting to pout and whine with Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prince Bandar attends anti-Iran meeting in Israel<\/strong><br \/>\n24 November, 2013 &#8211; Shia Post<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, has taken part in a meeting in Israel to discuss possible improvement of relations between Iran and the United States with Israeli premier and French president.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lebanese al-Hadath new website, the meeting was held in Tel Aviv last week, attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, French President Francois Hollande and Saudi spy chief.<\/p>\n<p>The participants discussed plans on how to counter Iran\u2019s role in the region and also how to deal with possible improvement of ties between Tehran and Washington, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The three also stressed the need for strengthening Saudi Arabia\u2019s defense system, promoting intelligence cooperation with the kingdom, and planning military maneuvers in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>This came as a new round of talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council \u2014 Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States \u2014 plus Germany, is being held in the Swiss city of Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli regime has been exerting intense pressure on the Western countries to prevent a potential nuclear deal with Iran. Netanyahu has said that any deal between the two sides would be a \u201chistoric mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the last round of talks in Geneva, a first-step agreement was within reach but the position taken by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in favor of the Israeli regime and a lack of commitment by US Secretary of State John Kerry spoiled the negotiations.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.shiapost.com\/2013\/11\/24\/prince-bandar-attends-anti-iran-meeting-in-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D19156&amp;text=Shut-out%2C+Saudi+Prince+Bandar+attends+anti-Iran+meeting+to+pout+and+whine+with+Netanyahu&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Bandar attends anti-Iran meeting in Israel 24 November, 2013 &#8211; Shia Post Saudi Arabia\u2019s intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, has taken part in a meeting in Israel to discuss possible improvement of relations between Iran and the United States with Israeli premier and French president. According to Lebanese al-Hadath new website, the meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19156#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2299],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19157,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19156\/revisions\/19157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}