Thanks,
The pipeline issue's coming back to me. Very plausible. But it seemed to me at the time that it was Iran's leverage over Russia that brought Russia into the war. I could be mistaken, though, looking at it from my limited vantage point. Iran needs Assad to keep up its arms shipments through Syria. Maybe they used nuclear plants as leverage -- Russia protects Assad and Iran gives Russia the nuclear contracts. I was wondering why Iran gave the deals to Russia. It didn't make sense at the time, as they were fighting over the first plant.
The Saudis and Qatar were getting along, but split over funding terrorism, support of MB, Hamas, Iran. It's amazing how much support there was. The Saudis tried a couple of times to bring Qatar back into the fold. Now, Iran's shipping tons on food to them daily, due to the embargo. Appears the Emir needs to pack his bags.
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