Iran warns of ‘divine vengeance’; Saudi Arabia breaks relations

"BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia severed relations with Iran on Sunday amid the furor that erupted over the execution by the Saudi authorities of a prominent Shiite cleric.

Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubair told reporters in Riyadh that the Iranian ambassador to Saudi Arabia had been given 48 hours to leave the country, citing concerns that Tehran’s Shiite government was undermining the security of the Sunni kingdom.

Saudi Arabian diplomats had already departed Iran after angry mobs trashed and burned the Saudi embassy in Tehran overnight Saturday, in response to the execution of Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr earlier in the day."

Thoughts?



https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...8c1584-b205-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html

 

Yeah.....here are some.

http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=438794&page=3&p=1065706339#post1065706339

 

The Iranians are a lot like the Israelis.. They talk and talk up a lot of melodrama.. KSA won't say much.. They just need to prepare and stay vigilant.

 

Didn't realize there was already a thread.

Oh well, the more discourse the better, right?

 

Saudi Arabia has a very totalitarian court system. Much worse than Iran (not that it is particularly good in Iran).
People are sentenced to excessively harsh punishments, including death, for all sorts of different reasons in Saudi Arabia.
In light of this, it's remarkable that the U.S. has been such a close ally of Saudi Arabia for so long.

 

I lived there 2 decades... how about you?

 

Iran Saudia Arabia war would be interesting.

 

The Saudi king had a meeting with Erdogan, who together with his side kick Devotoglu are known troublemakers. I'm sure the future 'sultan' gave the king a good pep talk and encouragement to behead as many as he could...for it pleases Allah. And if anyone should know, it is Erdogan the 'enlightened' one.

There are plans a foot for the restoration of the Ottoman Empire, and that's why Saudi Arabia formed an Islamic army consisting of all the Sunni nations. The only way the army though can enter nations and take control, would be as a peace keeping force...So King Salman killed the cleric to provoke the Shias into fighting with the Sunnis.

And here's the future sultan's new 1,150 room palace, which freaked out the Turkish people. Not only because of the $400,000,000 cost when Turkish wages are one of the lowest in the world, but also because it was built on land illegally. But then again Erdogan's the enlightened one, so it has to be the will of Allah.

 

As the price of iol goes down, more and more of the ME is falling apart.
It is not far from the point that internal presure will either cause war between the Sauds and Iran or will bring the fate of Syria on both.

 

Okay Margot, I'm just guessing about King Salmon's intent, but can you come up with a better reason as to why he killed the cleric?

 

Watch oil go to $200 a barrel... and the US economy go into a tailspin.

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Because he was working for Iran and calling for armed conflict and secession of the Eastern province. He must have been a madman.. You have to be one really stupid SOB to get into trouble in the kingdom.

 

"In a posting on his website, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that the execution 'will cause serious troubles for the politicians of this [Saudi] regime in a very short time….The hands of divine vengeance will surely snatch — by their necks — those cruel individuals who took his life.'

"The execution of Nimr, an outspoken critic of the Saudi royal family, has ignited sectarian tensions across the already inflamed region and jeopardized U.S. diplomacy aimed at tamping down conflicts in the Middle East."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/saudi-arabias-execution-of-cleric-ignites-fury-in-iran/2016/01/03/6d8c1584-b205-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html

Bob Baer, among others, has warned the new Saudi king may not be able to rule effectively:
"(CNN)King Salman of Saudi Arabia has inherited the throne from his older brother and with it a host of pressing challenges in a turbulent region."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/23/middleeast/saudi-arabia-new-king-challenges/

 

Robert Baer is a fraud who has never set foot in the Kingdom and doesn't know King Salman.

 

Huh?
Iran just let 100's of people invade the Saudi Arabian embassy, and so it even got torched. Only after that the Iranian government stepped in and peacefully dispersed the crowed. And in return the Saudi's broke up their diplomatic relation. Than again,.. not much diplomacy can be done if your diplomatic place got looted, smashed up and torched.

Let me know when Israel has the balls to do that.

 

Israelis just drop bombs on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq ................

 

This could go places !!

 

Lol I love watching Margo spin for Saudi Arabia always needing to get in a shot an Israel while she does it. Old habits die hard. huh Margot?

You saying Israel I is melodramatic now are you? Hah. I give you the Oscar award not to worry.

Listen speaking about melodrama Margot, killing 45 in a kangaroo court, well it was a tad melodramatic. So trying to pathetically focus that away from your beloved nation to Israel is pointless.

Here's another little suggestion. If you think Israel is all bluff, hah, test it.

See what you don't get and Putin does and Iran does and even Erdogan does, is that Israel has deliberately stayed out of the civil war between Iran and Saudi Arabia because neither nation gives a flying phack about Israel and both would love Israel to vanish and both have finaced terrorist cells as they are now, today, to destroy Israel

Israel has no need to get involved while Iran and Saudi Arabia kill each other ia an asinine proxy war of terror cells and armies of Sunnis and Shiites killing each other over what? You Shiites and Sunnis have been killing each other for 3,500 years and longer. The only time you ever stopped was to try unify your tribes by focusing on the JOOOOOOz of Israel.

How's that been working for you lately hmmmm? Doesn't seem to work anymore, what blaming Jews.

Oh hell I still read the Saudi financed anti semitic rags and see tell tale scripts showing up now with even Anonymous who seem infilyrated by your agents, but hey now, you know blaming Rothchild and Zionists for the world collapse it just doesn't have the same ring to it-it once hand.

No and that's because your beloved government tried one too many times to pay off terror cells and its enemies.

Go on look, What does Saudi Arabia have to show for the billions its wasted boosting extremists? Hah.

Your country is on the verge of an internal explosion to rid your corrupted monarchy and it can' seem to do a damn thing about Al Quaeda, ISIL or oh you know those wars in Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, tsk tsk.

Hell your petro strategy now is to keep oil prices artificially low to try punish both Russia and the US and Canada for tar sands and shale extraction.

Who are you kidding. Saudi Arabia won't increase the price of oil. Of course not. The Russian economy would love it to do that, so would Canadaa and US shale and tar sand extractors.

Lol don't look now but China and Russia completely control the exports out of Iraq and do try increase your oil. Lol. Try it.

See how fast the American and Canadian economies readjust. Been there, done that.

Saudi Arabia and Iran for all the world cares can blow themselves up. No one cares anymore. The blackmail over oil is coming to an end.

 

We were allies with Soviet Russia during WW II after they murdered 50,000,000 people during the 20 years preceding the war. We have a history of being allied with scum bag countries, tyrants, and dictators so why be surprised about SA.

 

My country is the US.. I happen to be an American Christian.

Some of the AQ who were executed have been in prison 4 years...

Read Bibi's Clean Break Strategy.. regime change in Iraq, Syria and Iran.. Sit back and ask for another $50 billion from the US.

 

They really do not have the balls to quietly lean back and just let an angry crowed loot, smash up, and torch an embassy.
This is just like the attack on the American embassy, except they now first let the people out.

Only very few countries do that,.. maybe even none at all.

 

This bears watching and it may be time to buy a bunch of oil company stock.

 

If there was a war going on between Saudi Arabia and Iran, than the oil trade from Iraq and Kuwait is in jeopardy since the trade would than go through a warzone.

To claim nobody would care if something like 80% of the middle eastern oil gets totally disrupted....
yeah... not founded on anything.

 

Granny says, "Dat's right - now dey's really onna outs...

Saudi severs ties with Iran after embassy attacked
3 Jan.`16 - Saudi Arabia broke off diplomatic ties with Iran on Sunday after protesters ransacked its embassy in Tehran to protest the execution of a Shiite cleric whose killing has sparked fury.

See also:

The Latest: Insider says Saudis decided 'enough was enough'
Jan 3,`16 -- The latest developments after Saudi Arabia executes a prominent opposition Shiite cleric convicted of terrorism charges, sparking anger in Iran and among Shiites across the region (All times local).

 

That seems a little harsh.
"Robert Booker "Bob" Baer (born July 1, 1952) is an American author and a former CIA case officer who was primarily assigned to the Middle East.[1] He is Time's intelligence columnist[1] and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.[2] Baer is a frequent commentator and author about issues related to international relations, espionage and U.S. foreign policy. Currently he is a reality television host on the History Channel's program 'Hunting Hitler.'"[3]
He probably never met Hitler, either

" a blurb for See No Evil, Seymour Hersh said Baer 'was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East.' In the book, Baer offers an analysis of the Middle East through the lens of his experiences as a CIA operative.

"Through his years as a clandestine officer, he gained a very thorough knowledge of the Middle East, Arab world and former Republics of the Soviet Union. Over the years, Baer has become a strong advocate of the Agency's need to increase Human Intelligence (HUMINT) through the recruitment of agents. Baer, long a supporter of the theory that the PFLP-GC brought down Pan Am Flight 103, has recently begun to promote the theory that Iran was behind the bombing.[clarification needed]

"In 2004, he told a reporter of the British political weekly New Statesman, regarding the way the CIA deals with terrorism suspects, 'If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear - never to see them again - you send them to Egypt.'[6] [7]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baer#Career

 

The word "paradise" is derived from an old Iranian/Persian word indicating a walled garden sanctuary. It would be nice if Iran learned to stay within its own walls. Anywho, taking sides between the Iranians and Saudi's is like deciding whether you want to be raped by an Italian or a German. Either way, you are getting screwed.