Iran Accuses Saudi Arabia Of Bombing Its Embassy In Yemen
Last weekend, an already chaotic geopolitical landscape was complicated immeasurably when Saudi Arabia moved to execute prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
The Sheikh was a leading voice among Saudi Arabia’s dissident Shiite minority and it was his role in a series of anti-government protests that ultimately sealed his fate. “In any place he rules—Bahrain, here, in Yemen, in Egypt, or in any place—the unjust ruler is hated,” Nimr once said of the Sunni monarchies. “Whoever defends the oppressor is his partner with him in oppression, and whoever is with the oppressed shares with him his reward from God. We don’t accept al-Saud as rulers. We don’t accept them and want to remove them.”

The Saudis branded Nimr a “terrorist” and insist that he was no different from the 43 Sunnis who were executed last Saturday.
The Shiite world isn’t buying it - not for a second.
In fact, it seems likely that Riyadh knew good and well that killing the Sheikh would precipitate a firestorm. Even John Kerry warned the Saudis against executing the popular Shiite figure. In light of that, it seems just as likely as not that Riyadh wanted to create an excuse to sever ties with the Iranians and escalate the regional proxy wars playing out in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.
In short: Saudi Arabia is losing. The Russian intervention in Syria has turned the tide against the Sunni extremist elements battling the SAA, what was supposed to be a quick victory in Yemen has devolved into a protracted stalemate, and Iraq has become an Iranian colony. The so-called “Shiite crescent” is waxing and the Saudis appeared powerless to stop it.
So they created a crisis. They engineered sectarian strife and then blamed Tehran for good measure.
From the time protesters took to the streets in Bahrain last Saturday we’ve been asking how long it would be before the “diplomatic” spat became part and parcel of the multiple regional proxy wars unfolding across the Mid-East.
On Thursday, we got the answer. Tehran now says Saudi Arabia has bombed the Iranian embassy in Sana’a.
- IRAN SAYS YEMEN EMBASSY HIT IN SAUDI AIRSTRIKE
"Tehran holds Saudi Arabia responsible for the damage caused to its embassy in Yemen," Bloomberg reports, adding that "an unspecified number of embassy guards were wounded."
Tehran says the missile attack represents a violation of international law.
Iran insists the bombing was "deliberate," and claims several staff members were wounded. As BBC notes, the Saudi-led coalition contends that "the air strikes had targeted rebel missile launchers, and that the rebels had used abandoned embassies for operations." Here's Reuters:
Dozens of air strikes hit the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, in what residents described as the heaviest aerial attacks there in nine months of war, days after a Saudi-led coalition trying to restore a Saudi-backed government ended a fragile ceasefire.
The strikes pounded the presidential palace and a mountain military base to the south of the city, causing children and teachers in several schools to flee for their lives.
"My classmate and I were at recess when a huge explosion hit the neighborhood. We ran to the side and she fell to the ground in fear," said Maha, a tenth grader in a Sanaa school. "Everybody was screaming and the administration got us together and called our parents to take us out - all the students were in a panic." There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Will this be just the excuse Iran needs to take the "proxy" out of Yemen's proxy war? After all, there have long been reports of IRGC generals fighting alongside the Houthis and it wouldn't exactly be out of character for the Quds to intervene in an effort to tip the scales. Perhaps more importantly, how long will it be before Iranian assets are damaged by Saudi strikes elsewhere? Like say, near Aleppo. Or in Iraq.
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It seems to me Saudi Arabia wouldn't be this openly aggressive without the implicit backing of an unnamed declining Empire.
This means nothing. Until they actually start firing at one another -- I don't buy any of it.
Lemme get it straight…
The Saudis cut diplomatic ties with Iran and drop bombs onto their embassy… in a third country?
What’s next, the Saudi airstrikes on Iranian embassies in DC, Moscow, and Beijing?
These retards are out of control! They have been milking and humping our Donkey and Elephant for far too long! ;-)
Looney
Here's what I think. We just made all nicey-nice with Iran. We've been Sudi's buddy for decades. Now we set them against eachother and sell weapons to both sides.
THAT, my friends, is what's called a win-win in Washington, DC.
This is bullish for stocks right?
I am waiting for a 'BUY' signal to come from Cramer on CNBC. In the meantime, I am keeping all of my FIAT safely parked in the GLD.
"Safely parked in GLD" isnt that basically an ETF which is derivative based and only "said to be" PARTIALLY backed by the real stuff. Aren't derivatives basically a paper promise and could also be called "fiat"? I am just a dummy and asking for clarity.
The Sauds have been duped. They believe that we will continue unwavering support in exchange for their proxy exergy war against Russia, when the plan has always been Keystone and the tar sands once we set the mid-east at war and light every other bridge on fire.
Sounds about right.
Yeah, but far more companies in the tar sands and fracking business need to go belly up so the Majors and Bankers can pick them up cheaper. Then the ME can go fully bonkers. Gotta wait until energy bottoms out.
May be just a dummy and somehow here wisdom you exhibit.
Statement would betterly read "riskly parked in GLD". Hope that guy is only on short term parking.
Bullish for 'stockades'
Putting the House of Saud in charge of their section of what was called Arabia Felix before WWI is predicated upon an important socio-political strategy of the British in faciilitating the zionist Balfour Declaration. The concept was set out by Lawrence of Arabia and when the UK gave management of Arabia to the US after the Suez crisis (in return for nuke technology) the US has maintained this very important Saud based strategy. The US will awlays back them to the hilt and this is not about oil, however the oil does help whip up interested factions. This is and always has been a religious strategy designed to maintain Islaamic impotence. Given the Islaamophobia rampant on ZH these days I suspect that if everyone understood the purpose of the strategy they would also back it to the hilt, decapitations and all.
Could be NoDebt but I thought the Americans were deliberately distancing themselves in the foreground for plausible deniability in the direct attack against Iran. I think this has been planned and thought out from the West's perspective and they're desperate so they unleash Saudis at Iran like they unleashed Ukrainians on Russia.
to put it in a different way: remember when George W. Bush made that plea to Americans about "addiction to (imported) oil"? zip forward to 2015, where Congress said "we can even export, now!"
something has changed about the situation between then and now, and some of it is in the US
Pay attention:
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Saudi Arabia–United States relations - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saudi Arabia
United States
"... Bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America began in 1933 when full diplomatic relations were established. Despite the differences between the two countries—an ultraconservative Islamic absolute monarchy, and a secular, democratic republic—the two countries have been allies. [This is apresumption, there is no formal alliance] In recent years, the two countries have occasionally been described as having a Special Relationship with one another. U.S. presidents, George W. Bush and current president, Barack Obama have strong and close relations with senior members of the Saudi Royal Family. ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_%E2%80%93_United_States_relat...
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White House to Royal House. That's it! No formal state to state military alliance.
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Foreign relations of Saudi Arabia - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Saudi Arabia is a non-aligned state ["NON-ALLIGNED" = NO WESTERN ALLIANCES] Although a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, Saudi Arabia has been described as leading the “Pro-Western Camp” of Arab countries, aligned with the U.S. and composed of Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf states. Islam is the main religion of Saudi. ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Saudi_Arabia
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Got that? A "CAMP" ... no military Alliance.
Never confuse a Coalition with Alliance. They are not interchangeable, and they do not mean the same thing. One is a formal military arrangement with binding obligations, and the other is an ad-hoc arrangement that comes into being cooperatively around shared military security interests, and then dissipates. They are informal and cooperative
I this case there is just a special relationship between Royal House and White House.
That's it! Though they have acted in military coalition arrangements for many years, off and on.
There is no formal Alliance or Treaty between the USA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like the formal arrangement of the NATO Treaty and the ANZUS Alliance, etc.
There is nothing even resembles that with the Saudis. It is purely an arrangement between trading entities that serves each others needs, until it doesn't, backed by diplomacy, and Western military protection - for now.
It may continue, it may not.
And even that is now turning into a more commercially-driven weapons for oil trading arrangement, so that they can do their own protecting of themselves.
The big Anglo western states (US, CAN, Aust) are now all serious hydrocarbon producers, whereas 10 years ago they were not.
And now all of the major producers in the ME are also our 'coalition' partners, and we all have bases there.
But not actual allies. These are not the same thing. Saudis are not our allies, they operate within an ad-hoc mutually operated coalition.
There is no obligation to treat coalition partners as an ally. And we don't, and they don't
Now you know why Washington was not conferred with about air attacks commencing in Yemen.
The Saudis simply didn't have to, there is no obligation, it is their own private sovereign business.
Hence the Saudi attitude to Washington of late.
So all major ME producers except Iran, are more or less coalition partners now. they are expending weapons and need many more weapons as they expend them.
If the region is insecure the West sells arms.
If the oil is also insecure, the West can get a better oil and gas price, as well as a larger market share.
It is a fundamental error to think there is an Alliance here. There isn't one, and there never has been one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition
There's this:
http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/thumbs/2013/Aug/2/b24886acad9a_sf_8.jpg
http://thelapine.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bush-kisses-abdullah-on-l...
And hopefully no more.
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Also in Wall Street a win and a win defence contractor welfare queens.
Otherwise to rest of Americans and humanity a lose-lose, the same script following since 70 years now...
Re NoDebt:
"called a win-win in Washington, DC."
Agree with that. But do not forget to include Russia. Russia consented to the sanctions, naval blockade and setting up Yemen for attack by abstaining from voting on it in the UN. A simple no vote would have blocked it. Of course Russia voted FOR the sanctions and military action that destroyed Libya a few years ago.
"In short: Saudi Arabia is losing. The Russian intervention in Syria has turned the tide against the Sunni extremist elements battling the SAA, what was supposed to be a quick victory in Yemen has devolved into a protracted stalemate, and Iraq has become an Iranian colony. The so-called “Shiite crescent” is waxing and the Saudis appeared powerless to stop it."
Putin, leading the 'isolated' nation of Russia (LOL), struck exactly at the right time to totally disrupt Saudi Arabia's and Turkey's plans to create their Sunni Caliphate. The ultimate controllers, USSA and City of London Banksters, are now blowing head gaskets their New World Order fall apart. So it is on to Plan B, if you can't control it or steal it, you destroy it, hence the Saudi provocations. This will end very badly if Iran takes the bait.
So it is on to Plan B,
I thought that was Plan A?
I read somewhere on another Blaag that John McCain always considered having a Plan B to be a sign of weakness.
That would explain a lot actually.
This will end very badly if Iran takes the bait.
And just like Russia with NATOs fine work in Ukraine at some point the bait "is" or "becomes" unavoidable!
Speaks volumes about the mental acuity of the Anglo-American partnership that bankrolled this experiment starting with that "outpost" and 51st State in the Union called Palestine! Yes this will end badly no matter what when you are an unstable and deranged narcissist!
Great summary LL
Well, would it be considered "taking the bait" if some Chinese man-portable AA-missiles suddenly appeared in Houti hands?
Didnt the US bomb the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia back in the day? The Chinese didn't start war over it. But the financial world wasn't collapsing then like it is today. Maybe this time IS different.
Don't forget the French embassy in Tripoli when Reagan bombed Khadaffi.
It was payback for France not allowing the US to use French air space for the mission (flight originated in England)
Well, one thing is sure, the Chinese don´t forget such an attempt in a hundred years.
While the French, they are just the French.
They can't start firing at one another until Iran goes to UNSC and dares Obama to sacrifice his entire foreign policy "legacy" with the US veto. In which case a missile strike on Ras Tanura would 1) create an impediment to terrorist financing, 2) drive oil prices significantly upward which Russia could capitalize on in the event Iran's production were to be shut in, and 3) be very difficult for the Saudis to rebuild in the midst of all those angry Shiites, thus increasing the chances of the fall of the House of Saud (without having to invade the country)... but we still have a long way to go...
At this point I am almost disappointed when I read the news after waking and we are NOT a step closer to doomsday. Fortunately, today was not a disappointment. The KSA is a reliable agent of doom and God loves them for it.
@ CogDis:
They say you can judge a man by the company he keeps...
We've been buddy-buddy with the Saudi "royals" for a long time.
McCain's choice of friends should automatically qualify him for a terrorist watch-list.
I have been ranting about this to my friends for years! We start wars for "Demonocracy" yet all our friends in the area are dictators. Its so obvious.
cog: "It seems to me Saudi Arabia wouldn't be this openly aggressive without the implicit backing of an unnamed declining Empire."
if you listen to Saudi Arabia and less involved sources the Kingdom is actually pissed about too little backing by Washington
the Saudi government is particularly angry at the US Democratic leadership. which means... they might send secret funds to anti-Dem campaigns, thanks to the way US law is shaped
talking about funds, and FX reserves, and so on... they burned something like a quarter of their "war chest". "best" estimates calculate that they can go on like for four years until they are in serious trouble
Hey don't think the Saudis are that stupid to have sold all their oil over the years just to have reserves of US paper!
Clearly they have been accumulating gold as well, people should start factoring that in when they talk about Saudis financial health.
of course. as a reminder, they originally wanted only gold for oil. it took a lot of convincing and many sweet deals of persuation to get them to accept dollars
nevertheless, they have a budget deficit of something like 20%, 90% of their revenues is from oil, and their financial war chest is not unlimited, be it in $ or gold
further, from their (and the Russian's) point of view, it's the "damn" US frackers that are spoiling the market, too
and don't forget that originally, there was only one king. now there is one king and over 1'000 princes, all descended from that original king
1'000 princely and pricely princelings cost a lot of money. the king as already curtailed their expenses twice, from memory. and I suspect a lot of that gold is in their private possession
Yup, lots of gold and for maximum safety they stored it in London and New York.
Nothing could go wrong with that, surely?
I was thinking the exact same thing, but there is likely much also stored in Switzerland.
We all know that it is safe there also and the Swiss would never break their promises of complete secrecy.
And never, never take the possessions of dead clients.
it's funny that the Saudi embassy in iran is burned by protesters and the whole world - including the usa - yells Stop it you meanies to the Iranians -
then saudi bombs the iranian embassy and there's not a peep from the west -
what a bunch of morons -
and why doesn't the press make mention of the fact that these saudi rulers are the NEW RULERS and freaking INSANE -
sterting w the 30 year old Salman.....
to the DUstbin of History fore the royal saudi family - SOON Please!
Maybe the other way round?
The Empire is gotten a bit tired with the increasingly counter-productive wahabbist antics of it's former partner in crimes against humanity - mayby especially unhappy with the incompetent work in overthrowing Syria's government. Now The Empire is distancing itself and opening up for other possibilities in the region.
The Saudi reaction is that of a teenager: Thrashing his room (and not thinking that he will have to clean it up later if he wants out of curfew).
Maybe the Saudi leadership is just completely isolated from reality; surrounded by an inpenetrable bubble of "yes-men" and syccophants they cannot understand that when one is running a country where life depends on reliable 12000 km JIT logistic chains run by contractors, with an army where the actural fighting is done by foreign mercenaries, then that country is not in a position where one can afford a war that will immediately result in the destruction of the oil-infrastructure paying for the JIT-train, the contractors, the mercs ... and the food!
PS: I am sure that the international community will be happy to put up an expedition force to restore law and order those oil faciliities *after* the royals are safely lynched by their own jihaddists, of course the US government might try to grab it all by fighting the war that the kingdom started but I don't think the US population will support anything like this.
Tough to tell one mud hut from another in Yemen
Maybe its tell was the second story and covered Hilux parking spot.
that sounds like a terrorist attack
oh, snap!
Close the damn borders and let these fuckers enjoy the great variety of interpretations of the Quran on their own.
We're supposed to hate the Saudis too.
My question is who was flying that aircraft?
https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/report-44238/
Israel’s fighter jets have taken part in the Thursday Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen, sources in Sanaa disclosed on Friday.
“This is for the first time that the Zionists are conducting a joint operation in coalition with Arabs,” Secretary General of Yemen’s Al-Haq Political Party Hassan Zayd wrote on his facebook page.
He noted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had issued direct orders for the Israeli air force to send fighter jets to the Saudi-led air raid on Yemen.
Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes against Yemen and killed, at least, 25 civilians early Thursday, one day after the US-backed Yemeni president fled the country.
Also, 15 more people were killed and injured in a second round of massive attacks by the Saudi Arabian fighter jets in the Northwestern Yemeni city of Sa’ada on Friday.
Yemen’s al-Massira TV reported that the Saudi air force targeted the Yemeni’s civilians who were shopping in a market.
"White House Spokesman Jim J. Johnson stated, “To be totally honest we were a little surprised the Saudi’s even knew how to fly those planes,..."
I wasn't expecting that line when I read it and was laughingly surprised by it. Well played.
My sources say this was a complete accident and that the intended target was an out of hand wedding party taking place between a hospital and an elementary school. And those two buildings just happened to be adjacent to the embassy. Anyone could have made this mistake. So, no harm; no foul. Right?
The saudis need to investigate themselves, and conclude (just like law 'enforcement') that they dindu nuthin.
why can't these towel head wraps just get together and divy up the oil fairly?
Very funny, Barack. Now go play, the adults have to talk.
Saudi Arabia has been a cruel, corrupt, criminal, cabal for decades that has spread war, terror and mayhem. Karma is coming and it will wipe out the Saudi Royal family.
Saudi Arabia has gotten off lightly for all the wars and mayhem it has caused in this world. 100 attacks on hospitals in Yemen by Saudi Arabia and the free and fair Western press has ignored them all:
Yemen hospitals ‘deliberately’ targeted in 100 attacks since March – ICRC
Medical facilities in war-torn Yemen are being ‘deliberately’ attacked, with some 100 incidents reported since the Saudi-led coalition began airstrikes in March, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, calling on all sides to cease hostilities.
https://www.rt.com/news/321522-yemen-hospitals-deliberately-targeted/ …
Here is a partial list of Saudi Arabia's other crimes in Yemen (as of July 20, 2015 - deaths today exceed 6000):
At least 3,500 have been killed as a result of the Saudi-led war, launched on March 26 of this year. Some 1,700 of these have been confirmed as civilians, according to the UN, with some 3,800 more civilians confirmed wounded.
Nearly 80 percent of the Yemeni population faces conditions of starvation, near starvation, and/or lack of reliable access to drinking water.
More than 1.2 million Yemenis have been forced to flee their homes by the war. At least 50,000 of the displaced have fled the country entirely, seeking refuge in neighboring countries of Oman, Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan.
Responsibility for the bloodshed and humanitarian disaster in Yemen lies squarely with Saudi Arabia, the other Gulf monarchies and their backers in Washington.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/07/20/yeme-j20.html
Yemen is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6708806/2015/12/20/yemen-might-be-worl...
Evidence emerged Monday that, indeed, the mass executions and the subsequent breaking of relations were part of a well-planned Saudi provocation.
The British daily Independent made public the contents of a leaked Saudi government memo showing that the ruling monarchy “knew the mass execution of 47 people would spark an angry backlash and ordered its security services to be on full alert before going ahead.”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/01/05/saud-j05.html
at 33/ bbl thing are going to get very strained over there. war baby war, what is unfolding is the precurser to an allout land/oil reshuffle...
my bet is on iran/russia/iraq powerplay with the o team wondering what do we do king soloman?
The latest from J.M. Greer: