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Jordan's Abdullah Bows to Atomic Ayatollah

AS US ALLOWS IRAN TO ACQUIRE ATOMIC ARMS, A US ARAB ALLY,

PRESSED BY RISING, RADICAL ISLAM AT HOME, TURNS TO TEHRAN

Jordan's king hedges his bets--click here to read all about it.

The Obama administration and its clueless media flunkies will certainly downplay the significance of Jordan's attempt to curry favor with nuclear-arming, non-Arab, Islamist Iran. Israel's government, too, will try to put on a good face and hide its alarm over this stunning development. Fact is, emergence of a neutralized Jordan on top of a radicalized Turkey would be disastrous--for the United States and Israel.

POSTSCRIPT: China Confidential sources say Jordan and Egypt suspect the U.S. of secretly supporting--or, at the very least, encouraging--the Muslim Brotherhood in both countries, seeing it as an irrepressible, oxymoronic "moderate Muslim" force with which Washington can do business, in contrast with Al Qaeda-associated groups and so-called irreconcilable elements of the Taliban.

Jordan won't interfere in domestic Iran issues when ties improved, says official

Abdullah plans to meet Ahmadinejad in near future, but it is not clear where; new bid for relations seems to contrast Jordanian king's stated concerns regarding the Islamic republic.

By News Agencies
Tags: Israel news Iran nuclear

Jordanian King Abdullah II plans to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the near future, as he moves to warm ties between the two Muslim countries.

An official in the Jordanian palace told the Al-Hayat newspaper that Abdullah wants relations to be based on the notion that neither side will interfere in the domestic issues of the other.

	King Abdullah II of Jordan delivering a speech in Amman on June 8, 2010.
	Photo by: AP

Abdullah made the appeal for better ties during a meeting Sunday with Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, the director of Ahmadinejad's bureau, according to an official Jordanian statement.Ahmadinejad's bureau sent Abdullah an invitation earlier this week to visit Tehran to discuss way of ameliorating contact. It is still not clear where the two will meet.

The monarch's appeal to this effect seems to contrast his regime's frequent criticism of Iran's policies.

As early as 2004, Abdullah warned of Iran's growing influence in Iraq and the rest of the region.

In U.S. cables released by WikiLeaks, U.S. diplomats were quoted as saying Jordan warned that Iranian influence could undermine American interests and moderate nations like Jordan, an ally of the U.S.