I have heard that the Saudis own 200 billion dollars of U.S. Treasury notes. That is some kind of clout.
But the main reason for this sale is because, short of an invasion of Iran, there are no other options for keeping Iran in check.
The Iranians keep tossing out these myths that they wish for nuclear power, although they haven’t built a nuclear power plant. They just keep enriching uranium till it reaches weapons grade levels.
They make it appear as if they only want to destroy Israel, when they really wish to intimidate and control the whole of the middle east and Europe. They wish for out and out war with the US. They are starting to fight with China.
Diplomatically, the UN is useless and Russia is uncooperative since Iran buys from Russia–talk about a trade deficit.
In chess, this is called a fork. And Iran is forking us really good.
