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http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136614/w-jonathan-rue/irans-navy-threatens-the-security-of-thepersian-gulf 10
Fars News, “MP: Iran to Stage Military Drill to Close Straits of Hormuz,” December 13, 2011.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007277151 11
Maha Dahan, “Gulf Arabs have plans against Hormuz closure: official,” Reuters, January 30, 2012.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/30/us-gulf-hormuz-gcc-idUSTRE80T0UT20120130 12
Elisabeth Bumiller, “US Defense Chief Visits Saudi Arabia to Bolster Effort Against Iran” NY Times, March 10, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/world/middleeast/11military.html 13
Katzman, Kenneth, “The United Arab Emirates (UAE): Issues for US Policy,” Congressional Research Service, June 23, 2010. 14
Mattis, Aaron, “Oil Sheik-Down, Saudi Arabia’s Struggle to Contain Iran,” Harvard International Review, Spring 2010. 15
EIA, IEO, p. 33
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RAND, National Security Research Division, “Saudi-Iranian Relations Since the Fall of Saddam: Rivalry, Cooperation, and Implications for US Policy.”RAND, p.12. 17
For further reading on the background of Iranian, US, and Saudi relations in the Gulf see Katzman, Kenneth, “The Persian Gulf States: Post-War Issues for U.S. Policy, 2003." Congressional Research Service. July 14, 2003. http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RL31533.pdf; Kenneth Katzman, “Issues for US Policy, 2000.” Congressional Research Service, November 3, 2000. http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/CRS%20Docs/persian.pdf; Christopher M. Blanchard, “Saudi Arabia: Background and US Relations,” Congressional Research Service. June 14, 2010. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33533.pdf; MAJ Randy B. Bell, “Expansion of American Persian Gulf Policy by Three Presidents,” 1990. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1990/BRB.htm; Charles G. Summers, “The Threat from Iran.” 1997. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1997/Summers.htm Bernard Reich and MAJ Stephen H. Gotowicki, “The United States and the Persian Gulf in the Bush Administration.” 1991. http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/usgulf.htm. 18
Reuters, “Saudi-Iranian Relations are Being Restored,” March 18, 1991; RAND, National Security Research Division, “Saudi-Iranian Relations Since the Fall of Saddam: Rivalry, Cooperation, and Implications for US Policy.”RAND, p. 17. 19
Barzegar, Kayhan, “Balance of Power in the Persian Gulf: An Iranian View.” Middle East Policy Fall 2010; Congressional Research Service, “Iran: Regional Perspectives and US Policy.” January 13, 2010, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/R40849.pdf 20
“Ahmadinejad on Pilgrimage to Makkah, Invited by King Abdullah.” http://www.asianews.it/newsen/Ahmadinejad-on-pilgrimage-to-Makkah,-invited-by-King-Abdullah-11029.html 21
Al-Akhbar, “Rafsanjani: Al-ta’awin al-Irani al-Sa’udi yahull mushakl al-’alam al-islami.” (Rafsanjani: Iranian-Saudi Cooperation Solves the Problems of the Islamic World.” http://www.alakhbar.com/ar/node/77527 22
Colvin, Ross. “’Cut of Head of Snake’ Saudis Told US on Iran.”