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Bush administration will announce next week a series of arms deals worth at least $20 billion to Saudi Arabia and five other oil-rich Persian Gulf states as well as new 10-year military aid packages to Israel and Egypt, a move to shore up allies in the Middle East and counter Iran's rising influence, U.S. officials said yesterday.


of the arms sales to the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries -- Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman -- will be defensive, the officials said.

Sunni regimes in the Gulf region have felt particularly vulnerable since the election of a pro-Iranian Shiite government in neighboring Iraq last year. "There's a sense here and in the region of the need to build up defenses against Iranian encroachment," said a U.S. official familiar with the deals.

Is this another Iraq?!!! Are the arabs planing for another invasion.of our land.. only time will tell.

Symourgh

effat27

wa roosieh ham dar 30sale ayandeh 1bln$ be iran lawazeme jangi khahad frookht, pas dar mantagheh tawazon bargharar khahad shod wa hagh be haghdar khahad resied=poole naft footeyna= bilakh=somagh(agar giereshoonoomad) mekiedane mellate IRAN.

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Symourgh