#SaudiAtrabia: #Iran: No gain. Hussain Abdul-Hussain is a research fellow at FDD. He focuses on the Gulf region and Yemen, including on Gulf relations with Iran and Gulf peace with Israel. Born and raised in Beirut, Baghdad and Baalbek, cities that have b
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🗓️ 24 March 2023
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#SaudiAtrabia: #Iran: No gain. Hussain Abdul-Hussain is a research fellow at FDD. He focuses on the Gulf region and Yemen, including on Gulf relations with Iran and Gulf peace with Israel. Born and raised in Beirut, Baghdad and Baalbek, cities that have been the theater of major Middle Eastern events, Hussain earned a degree in History and Archeology from the American University of Beirut, after which he worked as a reporter, and later managing editor, at Beirut’s The Daily Star. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I Am the World. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm John Batchewith, Malcolm Honeline, Conference of Presidents, Major American Jewish |
| 0:11.4 | organizations just back from the Middle East, where there's been a unusual development involving |
| 0:17.4 | two lifetime enemies to my understanding. |
| 0:21.6 | That would be the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, except prior |
| 0:26.3 | to the visit by Xi Jinping to Moscow, there was much talk in the news of a brokered diplomatic |
| 0:34.0 | breakthrough between Riyadh and Tehran, brokered by Xi Jinping himself, the Chinese Communist |
| 0:40.3 | Party. |
| 0:41.7 | All strange altogether. |
| 0:44.5 | So we welcome Hussein Abdul-Hassain, Research Fellow at the FDD, to help us understand that |
| 0:51.0 | strange French word rapprochement is this meaningful? |
| 0:55.6 | What does it mean? |
| 0:56.6 | Hussein, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:59.1 | Well, hi, John, thanks for having me. |
| 1:01.5 | I don't see much happening despite the hype. |
| 1:03.8 | I think all what we have until now is that the two countries decided to go back to January |
| 1:10.9 | 2016 before the Iranians burnt down the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and the consulate in |
| 1:18.3 | Meshad. |
| 1:19.3 | So far, we know that these two countries will resume diplomatic ties, but even when they |
| 1:25.4 | had diplomatic ties, we know that there were still bitter rivals and at times enemies. |
| 1:32.1 | So how big is this news to my mind not much? |
| 1:37.3 | And I've tried to look up all the statements by both sides, especially the Saudi side. |
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