Petraeus said: “There is certainly a history, in other countries, of fairly autocratic regimes almost creating incidents that inflame nationalist sentiment. So that could be among the many different, second, third, or even fourth order effects (of an attack).”

Gulf countries have recently been increasing their missile defense systems with the aid of the United States government. This commander stated that it had nothing to do with Iran, despite all of the media attention that has been given to this issue. He is quoted as of saying: “(this is) not something sparked by events in Iran in recent months.”

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