DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — On the same day Arab separatists killed at least 25 people in an attack targeting a military parade in southwestern Iran, President Donald Trump’s lawyer mounted a stage in New York to declare that the government would be toppled. Those threats so far haven’t led to a military confrontation or violence, but the risk is rising. In exchange, some international sanctions were lifted, allowing Iran to rejoin the global financial system and sell its crude oil to American allies. “We know we are a main target of Iran,” Prince Mohammed said in a 2017 interview, shortly before becoming crown prince. They also began publicizing the nighttime pipeline attacks by Arab separatists in Khuzestan, Iran’s oil-rich southwestern province, which Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein tried to seize in his 1980s war with Iran.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 23, 2018 14:03 UTC