State media reported on Friday that King Salman had conveyed the carefully-worded message during a telephone conversation with Barack Obama, maintaining the kingdom's position of avoiding an open confrontation with the US while warning about, and confronting, Iran's regional ambitions.
Just a 10-minute stroll from the Short Strand, hundreds of people looked on as two rival factions jeered and snarled at one another before the final confrontation, when hand-to-hand fighting finally broke out.
A significant thread in the recent politics of Tower Hamlets is the legacy of the Battle of Cable Street, the legendary East End street confrontation involving the police, local Jewish and Irish workers and activists, and Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists that took place on 4 October, 1936.
There is also a growing sense that differences between different separatist militias could lead to confrontation.
His party had seen the need in the mid-1960s to set Heath, their own meritocrat, to catch Labour's formidable Wilson, and that confrontation dominated a decade of British parliamentary life.
That's possible - those types of viewers typically claim to dislike excess confrontation in politics, and what made Romney effective was that his aggression was restrained and respectful - but ultimately, Americans, their claims to the contrary notwithstanding, respond viscerally to alpha dominance in their political leaders.
With owners threatening to move production east she had no need of a Frau Thatcher confrontation.
Traditionally at the forefront of social protest, and frequently on both sides of any debate, in this confrontation their voices appear to have been muted.
The 90-minute TV movie, Faith, follows in the footsteps of BBC1 dramas including Warriors, about British army peacekeepers in Bosnia; The Project, which dealt with the rise of New Labour; and most recently Holy Cross, a dramatisation of the 2001 sectarian confrontation in Belfast.
According to Hunt there was a confrontation with MacGregor in the living room.
