AGSIW Senior Resident Scholar Hussein Ibish appeared on Frontline’s “Confronting ISIS.” Ibish addressed Saudi Arabia’s attempts to counter recruitment for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, noting, “The problem is so deep that addressing all of the layers of intolerance in Saudi discourse is very hard. The problem is Saudi Arabia needs to do more and American pressure to get Saudi Arabia to do more is important.” He continued, “There is not real buy-in to the anti-ISIL policy on the Saudi part. Their analysis, I believe, is that the Iranian threat is an immediate and existential one that has to be dealt with at once or all will be lost. ISIL, on the other hand, is a big problem, but it can be dealt with over time; it’s much less threatening and much less urgent.”

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