Abraham Accords Caucus urges integrated MidEast air-defence

Agencies | Washington      

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

The Abraham Accords Caucus, comprised of members of both the US House and Senate, introduced legislation on Thursday to encourage the US to pursue a joint missile-defence architecture with Israel and the US’s Arab allies and partners in the Middle East — including Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

The bipartisan Deterring Enemy Forces and Enabling Nation[1]al Defences (DEFEND) Act advances a priority of building an integrated air- and missile-defence capability among the US’s regional partners and allies to ward off the ongoing drone and missile attacks by Iran and its proxies reports JewishInsider.

The legislation calls for Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and other regional partners and allies to be included within this cooperative framework.

The legislation would require the secretary of defence to “seek to cooperate with allies and partners to identify an architecture and develop an acquisition approach… to implement an integrated air and missile defence capability,” and then submit to Congress a strategy to reach such a goal.

Several lawmakers emphasised that establishing such a regional defence would be critical to preserving and fostering the economic and social growth brought about by the Abraham Accords as well as protecting the US’s national security.