The latest data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on global arms sales, released on 11 March, is a sobering acknowledgement that the Middle East and, in particular, key Gulf States are arming themselves to the teeth with the latest and best high-tech weaponry that money can buy. That’s good news for the arms trade industry, but bad news for anyone concerned about the seemingly irreversible march toward a regional war as tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia continue to ratchet up, aided and abetted by hard-line ideologues in both Tehran and Washington. Bad news, too, for those …read more
Source: Middle East Monitor
