It's On: Saudi Arabia Severs Diplomatic Ties With Iran, "Does Not Care" If It Has Angered White House
Earlier today, as Iranian police struggled to disperse protesters gathered outside the Saudi consulate in Mashhad, we said the following about the rapidly deteriorating situation:
If crude needed an excuse to rally, then surely this is it as it now appears that in addition to the fact that Riyadh and Tehran are squaring off in Syria (where Iran is present and the Saudis fight by proxy) and Yemen (where the Saudis are present and the Iranians fight by proxy), the two countries are on the verge of a historic diplomatic crisis which has the potential to stoke sectarian violence across the Muslim world.
Well sure enough, just hours later, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Ahmad Al-Jubeir announced that Riyadh has cut diplomatic ties with Tehran. The Saudis have demanded the Iran mission leave the country within 48 hours.
Jubeir said the attack in Tehran was in line with what he said were earlier Iranian assaults on foreign embassies there and with Iranian policies of destabilizing the region by creating "terrorist cells" in Saudi Arabia.
"The kingdom, in light of these realities, announces the cutting of diplomatic relations with Iran and requests the departure of delegates of diplomatic missions of the embassy and consulate and offices related to it within 48 hours. The ambassador has been summoned to notify them," he said.
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir
Riyadh also claims Iran did not attempt to stop protesters from storming the consulate.
Here's are the main bullet points:
- SAUDI TO FIGHT TERRORISM IN ALL OF ITS FORMS: AL-JUBEIR
- IRAN HAS SPREAD CHAOS, SECTARIANISM IN REGION, MINISTER SAYS
- AL-JUBEIR COMMENTS BROADCAST ON AL-EKHBARIYA SAUDI STATE TV
- ALL OPTIONS ON TABLE TO PROTECT SAUDIS, FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS
- IRAQ PROMISED TO PROTECT SAUDI DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS: AL-JUBEIR
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SAUDI ARABIA DETERMINED NOT TO ALLOW IRAN TO UNDERMINE SAUDI SECURITY-FOREIGN MINISTER
Promptly thereafter, Washington responded to Saudi Arabia's decision by calling for leaders throughout the region to take "affirmative steps" to reduce tensions, Reuters reports.
"We're aware of reports that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ordered the closure of Iranian diplomatic missions in the Kingdom," an Obama administration official said.
"We believe that diplomatic engagement and direct conversations remain essential in working through differences and we will continue to urge leaders across the region to take affirmative steps to calm tensions."
However, at this point the Saudis are beyond caring what Obama thinks, and made that quite clear. As reported previously, here’s the latest out of Riyadh, via Reuters:
- SAUDI ARABIA DOES NOT CARE IF IT HAS ANGERED THE WHITE HOUSE, SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH SAUDI GOVERNMENT'S THINKING SAYS: RTRS
- SAUDI ARABIA'S POSITION TOWARD IRAN IS 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH,' SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH SAUDI GOVERNMENT'S THINKING SAYS: RTRS
For those who might have missed it, the situation began to unravel on Saturday after Riyadh said it had executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr along with 46 other prisoners. Protesters poured into the streets from Bahrain to Pakistan and before the night was done, the Saudi embassy in Tehran was in flames.
All of this comes as Iran is projecting its influence in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, posing a threat to Saudi regional hegemony just as international sanctions on Tehran are set to be lifted.
The comments from Al-Jubeir seem to indicate that Riyadh is set to step up efforts to rein in the so-called "Shiite crescent", possibly by getting more involved in Syria, doubling down on the kingdom's commitment to the fight in Yemen, and, quite possibly, taking a more assertive role in Iraq by using the fight against ISIS as a smokescreen for some manner of intervention.
It's also worth noting how absurd it is for the Saudis to suggest that the Iranians are the ones "spreading chaos and sectarianism" in the region. After all, it wasn't Tehran that just executed a prominent member of another sect and it's not Iran that preaches a dangerous, ultra puritanical interpretation of Islam similar to that which Sunni extremists use to justify the execution of apostates. Further, it wasn't Iran that destabilized Syria by fanning the flames of sectarian discord.
In any event, this an exceptionally serious situation that could well mushroom into a direct conflict between the two countries which are already on opposite sides of multiple regional proxy wars.
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re "Why did SA buy Chinese missiles?"
Because they just had to have that "Made in China" label.
So sorry, camel-eye, but the rocket SW needs a reboot during fright. ;-)
Remember when Bill Clinton allowed the sale of missile tech to China?
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/11/world/clinton-approves-technology-tran...
They got it and it took years to develop and finally make sales of said missiles.
All, By, Design.
The more things change, the more they stay the same eh?
Cunts
;-)
on fleek
I doubt that the Saudi Royal Goatbangers gave Archduke Raghead a haircut without the permission of the USA MIC.
This is NOT Mr. Roger's Neighborhood....
We're not in Kansas anymore
Me thinks the Saudis are not pleased getting ass-fucked by Putin.
Seems Salmans son is going to take matters into his own hands.
Europe - get used to 10x the refugees of 2015 - and thank Uncle Sam, Allah and Mamma Merkel.
Humans a miserably failed species. Since Stonage. Nothing changed.
Still just dumb Neandertal men.
Both the leaders - and the 99.99% which let it happen.
Thanks be to Allah that you did not include us here who are in the .01%. Bless You!
Yeah, me too
If you like your severed heads, you can keep your severed heads.
FIGHT CLUB
two men enter one man leaves,
Excuse me while I go to Oregon and sever 150 or so heads...
Sincerely your trusted and loved leader..
Barrack "sever" Obombya.
You can be sure that as we read this the Iranians are doubling and redoubling military aid to the Houthis in Yemen. It's hard to see how the Saudis can defend against this - the Iranians will forever remain a poisonous thorn in their side. And there doesn't seem any way the Saudis can get back at Iran, even by proxy force. So many hate the Saudi royal family and would like to see it toppled...Iran, Russia, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, ISIS....the list goes on.
Aka GOD to the lay person
https://www.rt.com/news/327794-vatican-recognition-treaty-palestine/
A treaty facilitating relationships between Vatican and Palestine – referred to as a “state” in the text – has entered full force, sealing de-facto recognition of Palestinian statehood by the Holy See.The Vatican announced Saturday that its “Comprehensive Agreement” with the “State of Palestine” signed in June 2015 has come into full force, in which the Holy See bolstered support for the two-state solution of the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Referring to Palestine as “state” means Vatican has recognized it as an equal partner, thus sealing support for 2012 UN General Assembly resolution granting Palestine a non-member observer status.
Why the hell would they do that? They don't give a crap about those people. Hedging their bets maybe. Things are starting to get interesting.
Pretty soon we will be seeing bumper stickers with the words "GOT RAPTURE? With a mushroom cloud in the background.
well it seems that the Holy Sea has seen the future
Mossad assassins in St Peters in 3 2 1 ...
There is a new Russian propaganda film/documentary out relating to the globalist agenda. It looks interesting.
http://www.sott.net/article/309707-Russian-Documentary-World-Order-exposes-US-driven-NWO-conspiracy-with-English-subtitles
Who do you fear more?
Camel jockeys or those among us who would conspire with them.
Compared to the Wahhabi ( they give me the heebeegeebees ) extremists in Sodomite Arabia, Adolf Hitler was a well rounded gifted Diplomat.
The filth that is ZATO are propping up these despotic regimes in SaudMe & Turkey. Burn those dictatorships to the ground and start over.
The See Eye Aye have their dirty little fingerprints all over this thing. There is no way they are going to let the evil house of Saud fail nor are they going to allow Iran to emerge as the super power in the middle east. Putin has proven to the world that ISIS/ Turkey illegal oil trade has been sanctioned by the US and their war on "terror" is a farce.
What scares the shit out of me is how quite things have been out of IS RA EL lately. What are they up to? I think the USA is trying to instigate WWIII through the Sauds or their NATO ally, Turkey.
There is no way in Hell the USA is going to walk away with a Putin/ Iran dominated middle east. Ain't gonna happen.
If you take a serious, analytical look at American and British weapon systems you would know they are in no position to walk and talk anywhere right now.
You may underestimate the power of the CIA and the criminal degenerate elites who have looted and terrorized this world -killing millions and creating tens of millions of refugees. The world is getting sick of the evil globalists -their supporters are politically correct liberal fag types in USA and Europe who are too busy with their gay sex love fest to ever put up a fight on a real battlefield - Their power is based on the perception of their power and omnipotence - Honneger in East Germany and Couseceau in Romania believed the same -they rely on stupid , ignorant sheeple masses -who once they pull their heads out of thier asses and get over the sweet intoxification of methane - can turn on them in a minute.
You should read the book, "The Second Oldest Profession" by Phlllip Knightley. It shows how really stee-uu-pid and incompetent our intelligence services really are, not only here but world wide. They're not like some CIA characters shown in the mooooo-veeeees. Also stop reading too much into the CIA and conspiracy theories. Many of them are crackpots and con artists to begin with.
Maybe IS RA HELL is staying quiet to hope nobody will remember them when the shit starts to fly. Those golks like to start wars and watch from behind the curtains.
Let Putin nuke Vichy. The rest of us have no power over the PTB or can stop the Deep State. Please don't nuke the rest of us, Vlad. We have no beef with Russia.
So do the Saudis start getting serious about dumping US treasuries to pay for this latest geostrategic blunder? Sov. Wealth fund has 500 billion in US bonds.....Do they come in and announce oil sales in Yuan to keep the chinese happy?
Get ready Belgium for a lot of Fed action buying US bonds through your account.....
So do the Saudis start getting serious about dumping US treasuries to pay for this latest geostrategic blunder? Sov. Wealth fund has 500 billion in US bonds.....Do they come in and announce oil sales in Yuan to keep the chinese happy?
Get ready Belgium for a lot of Fed action buying US bonds through your account.....
the start of a nuclearized Middle East.
Wars and rumors of wars.... Same as it ever was.
Oil is a funny thing, despite the world wide glut of oil, all of the easy to find and cheap to produce oil is pretty much in the pipeline. Despite investing hundreds of billions of dollars into legacy oil, the amount produced of the cheap stuff has not risen for decades. Increasingly all of the surplus oil is found in the high cost oil plays. Fracking, Deep Water, Tar Sands, High Arctic. The recent heavy investments there have produced this glut. Any supply disruption to the cheap oil sources like Saudi and Persian would naturally result in a quick rise to $100 a barrel oil in order to fuel the marginal plays back into full production.
It has been argued by some of the sources I read that for a long time both the USA and Israel have striven to foster a Muslim World War. Meaning the great Islamic divide goes to war totally and in all places. Right now the world Sunni are lead from Saudi Arabia, the Shia of the world are led by Iran. So if indeed these two come to blows in the Persian gulf, then naturally oil will explode upward. Oil is found in and around the Islamic world, much of the cheap oil at least!
I can't begin to guess what would escalate the Saudi Iranian crisis further. Syria and Yemen are the present battlefields. Saudi has poured weapons and money and Jihadists into Syria in a mahor push to slow the Syrian Army. But so far the Syrians are clawing back their nation with help of Russian air power. Saudi could step into the Syrian war directly, but Russia now holds the trump card. The S-400 and Naval Version of S-300 are fully operationable and protected by Pantsir S1 short range A.A. systems. Saudi planes entering Syrian airspace are likely to be shot down.
I'de guess cooler heads prevail and nothing comes of this. If it does get worse, oil stands to go up. And Washington's nightmare of a rapid Rise in Russian oil revenues would come to pass. Remember Russia pumps fairly low cost high profit oil, American fracks rocks to get high cost low profit high debt oil. A clear winner can be seen. It ain't how much oil you got, it is how much it cost you to produce it.
Since GDP and Economic growth are a direct result of oil use, never, ever, count oil out. Sooner or later you gotta burn it if you want to live in the 21st century!
You're right that you can't ignore the inherent and critical value of oil - but we are also on Hubbert's "Rocky Plateau", and everything we've experienced since 1999 vis-a-vis oil has fallen in line with Hubbert's predictions.
We are now on the top of the peak, where we spend a decade, maybe two, in a see-saw relationship between the price of oil and economic growth.
Hubert failed to predict demand destruction, were the marginal cost of production exceeds what the economy can afford to pay.
He was a geologist/geophysicist rather than an economist IIRC.
Well, no matter how you cut this deck, it's not looking good.
Spot on, as usual.
I'd add to this that all western nations should be structuring their incentive systems to migrate people off oil as fast as is practicable.
Why is the US sticking its dick in the meat chopper called The Middle East? So Isreal can steal Palestinian nat gas and pipe it thru Syria & Turkey to Europe?
Cause America is Saudi's Bitch
Like YatsenYUK the Sodomite FM looks like a child molester and he's one of the better looking one's in the Wahhabi Inbred Dictatorship.
This can get really ugly really soon.
Next dates to remember:
01/05/2016 Iranian diplomates shall have left saudi arabia
01/07/2016 Orthodox Christmas (Russia)
01/09/2016 Entering main event in ME
Orthodox Christians celebrate on January 6th (some on the 7th depending on what day of the week the 6th falls) and includes Assyrians, Greeks, Armenians, Copts, and (I think) Nestorians. There are many other ancient Orthodox people as well.
Note that Iraq was many ancient civilizations of which many were destroyed by the upheaval caused by the US invasion (may the US rot in hell for what it did).
All the Orthodox in the MENA are turning their eyes to Russia. The West supports the jihadi head chopper enemies of the Orthodox.
So, if ME was already on fire, then what does this portend?
I posted this on another blog on December 21....
"A few well placed projectiles toward Saudi oil fields changes the entire game. Not at all out of the question. There would be a number of beneficiaries on a number of levels and one helluva Black Swan. Abrupt shift in Balance of Power both geopolitical and financial.
Wonder if Armstrong has considered this scenario as he reads and interprets The Robot"
Good question about Armstrong. The Yemen rebels got updated rockets from somewhere. Probably Iran. They managed to hit some Saudi oil fields and do some damage. I think the execution was probably meant as payback to Iran. One can only hope this gets out of hand. Iran and Saudi Arabia going to war might actually prevent a nuclear war.
I can just picture this Saudi asshole molesting little boys or small goats. I can also picture Obama slobbering on his balls
George Washington was a half ass artist that made drawing of his nightmares (his oversexed wife chasing him). Do you have the gift. You verbally paint such fantastic pictures....maybe you could sketch and sell them.
Send in the US tropps. Long on Yellow Ribbons and Widows
"This time the bullet cold cocked ya, a yellow ribbon instead of a swastika."