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• Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, UAE alarmed at Iranian nuclear program
• Arab states privately agree with Israel on Iranian threat
• Iran may have missiles that could threaten European capitals

Washington, Nov. 26 – Arab states feel gravely threatened by Iran’s nuclear weapons program and several have privately urged the United States to use all means including military action if necessary to stop it,
according to classified diplomatic documents made public by Wikileaks.
Among the 250,000 cables leaked to media organizations, several of the most dramatic illustrate how Arab leaders regard the Iranian nuclear program as a deadly threat to their security and distrust and fear the regime in Tehran.
According to an account published in The Guardian, Saudi King Abdullah repeatedly urged the United States to destroy the Iranian program.
He told you [Americans] to “cut off the head of the snake,” the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir said, according to a report on Abdullah's meeting with the U.S. general David Petraeus in April 2008.
Officials from Jordan and Bahrain have also called for the Iranian program to be stopped by any means necessary while leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Egypt referred to Iran as “evil,” and an “existential threat.”
The New York Times cited cables saying Iran has obtained advanced missiles from North Korea that could let it strike at Western European capitals and Moscow.
“The cables reveal how Iran’s ascent has unified Israel and many longtime Arab adversaries — notably the Saudis — in a common cause,” The New York Times said. “The United States had put together a largely silent front of Arab states whose positions on sanctions and a potential attack looked much like Israel’s.”
Crown Prince bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi said in one cable: “Any culture that is patient and focused enough to spend years working on a single carpet is capable of waiting years and even decades to achieve even greater goals.” His greatest worry, he said, “is not how much we know about Iran, but how much we don’t.”
Other documents describe how the United States failed to stop Syria from supplying arms to Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, who have amassed tens of thousands of rockets aimed at Israel. One week after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad promised a top State Department official that he would not send new arms to Hezbollah, the United States it had information that Syria was providing increasingly sophisticated weapons to the group.

Leaked Documents Show Iranian Threat to Arab World, Europe - The Israel Project