Bandar's Mafia-like threat toward the Sochi games -- a version of "nice Olympics you got here, it'd be a shame if something terrible happened to it" -- failed to intimidate Putin, who continued to support Assad. But Putin became obsessed with security at Sochi, distracting him from the worsening crisis in Ukraine where Yanukovych was ousted in a neocon-orchestrated coup on Feb. 22, 2014, a day before the Olympic torch was extinguished.
Now, with Obama nearing a possible agreement to rein in but not end Iran's nuclear program -- against the wishes of the Israeli-Saudi tag team -- the leak in the Israeli media suggests that Netanyahu with the support of Saudi Arabia's royal family may be contemplating his own bombing campaign against Iran.
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