Whoa! Now, there's no big secret that Saudi Arabia has been pretty paranoid about agression against them coming from Iran down the line and the Egyptians have no love lost for the Shias in Tehran as well, but here at DEBKA, we see a report where Saudi and Egyptian special forces got together for military maneuvers that actually mimicked what would be an actual attack ON IRAN!
From the report:
With the recent arms sale by the U.S. to Saudi Arabia, the possible confrontation between the Sunni kingdom and the collection of Shia misfits in Iran seems even more the possibility...unless you finally come to your senses that Iran would shirk from any kind of confrontation. Iran hasn't been in a military conflict or even close since the Iraq/Iran War and as we've seen with their strategy of exporting terror and hiring proxies, I doubt they will break this streak.
But I gotta say...I'm liking this idea of a Saudi/Egpytian raid into Iran. Let the games begin.
From the report:
Egyptand Saudi Arabia secretly carried out their first ever joint exercise this week with the participation of their special operations, marine, armored, missile, air and naval forces, debkafile's military sources reveal. Exercise Tabuk-2 was programmed to repulse a potential Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia by taking the battle over to Islamic Republican territory. Our sources note that a new chapter was written in Middle East military history this week: The two largest Arab nations deployed their military strength in position for combating the Iranian army and its Revolutionary Guards Corps and showed they were willing to counter Iranian belligerence by invading the aggressor.I don't know about you folks but the thought of Saudi and Egyptian forces moving into Iran in a surprise assault and confronting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in a full scale battle is just about enough to make my mouth water. The carnage of that would be glorious, eh? :)
Tabuk-2, which Riyadh and Cairo took care to keep under wraps, took place from Sunday, Oct. 17 to Wednesday Oct.21 under the command of Acting Saudi Defense and Aviation Minister, Prince Khaled Bin Sultan, son of Crown Prince Sultan.
With the recent arms sale by the U.S. to Saudi Arabia, the possible confrontation between the Sunni kingdom and the collection of Shia misfits in Iran seems even more the possibility...unless you finally come to your senses that Iran would shirk from any kind of confrontation. Iran hasn't been in a military conflict or even close since the Iraq/Iran War and as we've seen with their strategy of exporting terror and hiring proxies, I doubt they will break this streak.
But I gotta say...I'm liking this idea of a Saudi/Egpytian raid into Iran. Let the games begin.
First joint Saudi-Egyptian maneuver ever was geared to Iranian threat
Egyptand Saudi Arabia secretly carried out their first ever joint exercise this week with the participation of their special operations, marine, armored, missile, air and naval forces, debkafile's military sources reveal. Exercise Tabuk-2 was programmed to repulse a potential Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia by taking the battle over to Islamic Republican territory. Our sources note that a new chapter was written in Middle East military history this week: The two largest Arab nations deployed their military strength in position for combating the Iranian army and its Revolutionary Guards Corps and showed they were willing to counter Iranian belligerence by invading the aggressor.
Tabuk-2, which Riyadh and Cairo took care to keep under wraps, took place from Sunday, Oct. 17 to Wednesday Oct.21 under the command of Acting Saudi Defense and Aviation Minister, Prince Khaled Bin Sultan, son of Crown Prince Sultan.
Khaled's military record goes back to 1991 when he led the Saudi contingents taking part in the American invasion of Kuwait for ending the Iraqi takeover. In 2009, he commanded the Saudi expedition force which fought Iran-backed and funded Huthi rebels in northern Yemen.
This week's joint exercise was conducted in Egypt's northern desert up to its Mediterranean shoreline, an area whose terrain is similar to conditions on the Persian Gulf coast of eastern Saudi Arabia. Although Iran was not named, the two armies practiced responses to "enemy landings" in the kingdom's eastern regions, where its oil fields, facilities and ports are situated. The script provided for Egyptian forces to be rushed to the area under attack and join up with the Saudis to throw the invaders back while at the same time a joint Saudi-Egyptian commando force standing by in the northwest would make for the western coast of Iran and launch a counter-attack on Revolutionary Guards bases.
In the weeks leading up to Tabuk-2, large-scale Saudi marine, air force, tanks and artillery forces arrived in Egypt, their first landing on Egyptian soil.
According to debkafile's military sources, this was the first maneuver in a series planned for the coming months in the Mediterranean, Red Sea and Persian Gulf arenas. Riyadh and Cairo are firmly resolved to have their armies at peak war readiness at all times for going into battle in any security contingency that might arise.
Egyptgave Israel advance notice of the maneuver and met with its approval.
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