Iran and Saudi Arabia start their kiss-kissing of each other

Israel's Netanyahu, hopefully, will learn a lesson from this.  It's a bitter lesson but it has to be learnt. He should have known that the two main denominations of Islam, Sunni and Shiite, would  reconcile .... sooner or later.  From the overtures that the Iranian guy is making of late,  it's now becoming clear that that's gonna happen sooner than later.   Netanyahu is gonna be left out in the cold .... and he and his lobbyists and supporters in Washington and his advisers at home, should have known that would happen, and Israel should have never made an alliance with the hell-on-earth Saudi Arabia.  That's a stigma that won't wash off ever.

The overtures of friendship from Iran are also towards the USA.   Iran has just released 11 prominent political prisoners, maybe as a gesture showing  how "good" they can be if given a chance and before the Iranian honcho's visit to the USA next week.

Having said that,  I wouldn't put it past either the two heads of both Saudi Arabia and Israel to cook up more manipulation trickery to hoodwink the USA and the West.

From Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia's mouthpiece)
 ....Iranian president: Saudi Arabia is a ‘friend and brother’  Iranian President Hassan Rowhani called on Thursday for closer ties with Saudi Arabia, hailing the kingdom as a “friend and brother” of Iran, state-sponsored Tasnim News Agency reported.
Rowhani was addressing a meeting of Hajj officials in Tehran saying that his government is “willing to remove trivial tensions from the path (of bilateral ties with Saudi Arabia) in order to fulfill bilateral and the Islamic world’s interests.”
“This issue (expansion of ties) has been emphasized both in the Saudi king’s congratulatory letter to me and in my letter to thank him,” Rouhani added.
Rowhani had said on Tuesday that improving relations with neighboring countries is a top priority in his foreign policy agenda.
He also pledged to adopt an approach of openness with Western powers over Iran’s disputed nuclear program.
The relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran have been tense during the administration of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both countries have conflicting approaches to regional issues in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt....