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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Most surprising aspect of all this is the fact that Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Ahmad Al-Jubeir doesn't have a beard.
Very odd as shaving the beard is considered haraam.
good point.
he doesn't have a raghead either.
The evil sub-human Saudis have lost a bit of hardware in Yemen.
Have they got enough left to have a war with Iran? We'll see.
The Saudis' problem is with manpower. As in their military is utterly corrupt, promotions based on tribal affiliation and other political considerations.....no national loyalty unless you're a Saud. Iran would make mincemeat of them all other things being equal. Which of course they never are......
.......sorta like the US military culture.......
"Iran would make mincemeat of them all other things being equal. Which of course they never are......"
It would be justice if Iran dealt with them. But I guess if things got v/serious, Washington would step in to honour a defence agreement it has with Saudi, which goes back to early 70s if I remember correctly.
Honor an agreement? We are Americans for Christ sakes. We reserve the right to jump ship when necessary.
"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."
So, Iran created the Saudi royal family "terrorist cell".
Whoda-thunk it.
All right on schedule. This will be the year of crisis and Peace Prize will be forced to postpone elections (for the children) and will remain in office
"...the Saudis are beyond caring what Obama thinks..."
This should not hurt Obama much. If he (sensibly) stays neutral, even if war breaks out between Iran and the Saudis, Obama can blame a stock market crash on the war. Ditto if gasoline prices rise. The Saudis may get real angry at US for abandoning them and stop buying arms from US but where are they going to buy weapons from? Certainly not from Russia.
Backing the Saudis would be politically crazy even if miitary ties run deep between US and them. The American people wouldn't support it - as bad as Iran is, the Saudis are definitely worse and they helped create ISIS.
The only real problem is with Israeli relations. Israel hates Hezbollah which receives money and weapons from Iran. Israel also caused Hezbolla's existence as we know it by occupying southern Lebanon (for 18 years).
Such nice people. Hillary should consider approving another $29B of weapons after they donate another $10M to her foundation.
/sarc
Life expectancy of the House of Saud as well as Turkey.... on the outside is 18-24 months at best.
That could be the life expectancy of all of us.
Depending on other things.
We are heading for WW3 and then wait for a disclosure that will rock the entire world......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2016/01/top-secret-alien-ph...
OMG IS NIBIRU COMING? I HOPE TEH ANNUNAKI WILL SAVE US
Wrong site for that, haha
Aw, net.kook, you the link got wrong. Here, I help you out, be a kind soul or something...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDJN_4r4eI&t=5s
Get ready for the Dune Coon drive-bys.
Gonna be a lotta Allahu Ackbars flying around.
You tube will be hilarious.
Obama is gonna pull a Wilson. He'll declare we are neutral and offer to host peace talks.
That would be good if he did, but I suspect since Saudi is agitating this, that they're looking to set a trap, Desert Storm II. Hoping that the fate of the Iraqi army on the highway of death will befall the superior Iranian force.
When a barbaric, primitive tribe like the Saudis say that they "don't care if they angered the White House," then you know the White House told them to say that.
Washington and London put the House of Saud on the throne to guarantee a stable supply of Saudi oil to the West.
The House of Saud used this power to do the bidding of the West and brutally maintain their power and terrorize their subjects from trying to establish a democratic form government.
The story so far:
2001, and a weak willed, uninspiring President Bush, a failed member of the BUsh energy dynasty is looking for an issue. Somehow, despite the US having the biggest, badest intelligence network in the world, which includes the CIA, the FBI, the NSA 19 Saudi Arabian's get Visa's to go train to fly commercial jets in the US, despite them having no background or connections to the airline industry. At the same time, Wolfowitz, at State, is working on the Israeli plan to take out 6 Arab countries in 7 years and leave them crushed, in chaos. Osama Bin Laden, also a Saudi, and trained by the CIA, is ostensibly the groups leader and he is supposed to be pissed at the US for putting troops into Saudi Arabia. Israel wants Palestinian natural gas, and another Sunni state, a puppet of Riyadh, Qatar has a ton of natural gas that they would like to sell to Eruope, but two things stand in their way, Iraq and Syria. Now it's pretty obvious that there are a lot of aligned interests going on here.
So somehow, these 19 Saudi's manage to hijack multiple jetliners and fly them into the Pentagon and the Twin Towers. The nation is shocked and outraged, but Bush, ever the Saudi friend, manages to change the channel and put the focus on Saddam Hussein in Iraq, whom is said to have 'yellow cake' and 'weapons of mass destruction'. He gets Condolezza Rice, Tony Blair and Colin Powell to support his lie. And we all now know they were lying.
So Bush assembles a mighty army, takes out Iraq, murders 1 million and installs a puppet government. Meanwhile, NATO gets into the act and takes out Moamar Qaddafi in Libya. So far, so good. Then Bush passes the Patirot Act, overturning the Constitution and giving the CIA, NSA, DHS carte blance to spy on the world including everyday Americans, engage in torture and rendition to dark sites, hold people without charges and without access to legal representation, hold secret courts, the whole ball of wax. Sounds kind of like a dictatorship, doesn't it? Then, the Saudis, Qataris, UAE, Turkey and Israel create, fund and arm ISIS and send them on a terror rampage in Iraq and eventually Syria, where the US is busy busting Assad's balls for being 'a dictator' despite the fact that Syria is/was one of the best run, most secular countries in the ME. Still with me?
How could we have been so stupid? All the bad guys are winning this thing. Libya is a mess. Iraq is barely hanging on. Russia had to save Assad and now the good old Saudis are threatening to turn this all into a regional war with Iran, something that will probably go nuclear, while Israel fixes broken bones and shrapnel wounds of ISIS fighters and Erdogan and his son siphon billions in profits from stolen oil from Syria and Iraq, while Netanyahu dreams of the greater State of Israel, re-established in the Levant, which wasn't theirs in the first place because it had belonged to the Caananites for millenia.
And meanwhile, Bush is a free man, the MIC is making a fortune, the CIA is empowered to spy on every American just like in the bad old days when there was a 'commie hiding under every bed', the NSA is flush with cash, the politicians have created a grand new organization called DHS which terrorizes people all over the country and humiliates them in airports, and they have the fucking nerve to say that we are free? They are pure, fucking evil, and they have no intention of changing or stopping. They have pissed all over the law, the courts, human rights, everything and made it a much more dangerous and crazy world.
I'll leave it up to you to think about this and at the same time, think about what should be done about it.
Nice synopsis of the last decade or so. Similar to the shenanigans going on for a century?
Dark Daze ;-)
End the Fed.
Make some more whining ineffective noises like the above?
Hey, you asked.
They should have waited until golfing season in DC metro area to pull a stunt like this.
Paradigm shift from West to East; from the House of Saud to Iran et al.
It is obvious in the illegal gold trade and manipulation.
Obvious in manipulated markets,, led by the City of London Ratchilds and their BIS.
The House of Saud has woken up, and knows it is next for the guillotine, betrayed by its City of London nazionists.
Plus c'est la meme chose...
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
hey here is a big joke
isis fears israel...
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/jurgen-todenhofer-isis-fears-israel/
BS, isn't it.
“Washington responded to Saudi Arabia's decision by calling for leaders throughout the region to take affirmative steps to reduce tensions”
Imagine if during the Civil War a bunch of Arabs rode in on camelback and told the Union and Confederacy to remain calm and stop fighting.
That’s how effective this will be.
Please, Tehran. Drive straight across northern Iraq and kill all of the Daesh head choppers. With Russian air support you can do it.
What no one has mentioned, I don't think, is how much stronger Iran is militarily than Saudi.
Saudi may have American weaponry, but Iran has the military-aged male population and a farily self-sustaining economy (yay Sanctions)
the real powers running america's security know it was saudi arabia that made '911' happen!
but, how do you retaliate without showing your hand.
bush didn't give a fuck as he, cheney, rice, rumsfeld etel., were preempting a strike on iraq before the ink was dry on his presidency.
clinton and tenet warned bush so many fucking tymes about what was going on in AFPAK regarding OBL, but the asshole 'commander and chief' ignored them.
lindsey and o'neill his economic team were fired. both were aware in early 2001 before '911' that cheney was going into Iraq. note: both cheney [nixon/ford/bush#41adm.] and rumsfeld[nixon/ford/ bush #41 adm] wanted war with whomever their neo-con [heritage foundation etel] masters chose.
its all about oil [black gold] and natural [the new 'blue gold' energy into the 22nd century] gas and qatar's/ iran's south pars field are where its at regarding accessibility.
so the ussa wants to destroy the saudi's for 911, but how?
wait for it. it's 15 yrs. hence and the plan/trap has been set with no one the wiser? two birds with one stone. the ussa will sit back and watch the saudi's get obliterated by iran. and, only then when the kingdom looks like damascus or nothern syria will the ussa try to calm the waters.
their will be a massive power vacuum in the kingdom that's been festering for a quarter century and will last until justice is finally achieved. perhaps another 10-20 years.
but, this is the beauty of dividing and conquering... iran will be vulnerable? the ussa in ww2 wanted so much for both germany and russia to sel destruct, but unfortuately their was the 'Stalingrad Event' [the winter of dicontent for the Nazi's] otherwise the russians would have eventually wipe each other out. this is what fdr/truman wanted.
now lets see if things turn out as i've mentioned, or...[?]
suggestions
Dancing Israelis who filmed 9/11 were later deported, and a couple of them admitted they were Mossad.
It gives me no pleasure at all to see my fellow Americans deceived; my daughter's loyal jewish college friends; my son's friend from the House of Saud.
Old men make wars. Young men fight them.
End the Fed.
wow,... where do you get your info?
The State Department, and honest journos, , just to name two..
er...I take it you get your info from the back of Captain Crunch/Fruit Loops boxes.....
Remember Horseface Kerry excitedly mumbling about how important the Treaty with Iran was, for the US Dollar? Maybe somehow this beef between Saud & Iran , has an ending that is tied to that?
the ussa in ww2 wanted so much for both germany and russia to self destruct
Agreed, Earle, but then why Lend Lease? Or, at least, what was the hurry?
err....what the fuck do you think syria was all about you dumpkoff
Man what a great day it's been , day 4 of 2016 and it's already epic.
Stay close to the Constitution, and Bill of Rights.
This shit show is about to go old world.
We may get a new Boston massacre after the latest introduction of the 'Intolerable Acts'
OK. Bring it. I am weary of waiting, and want a true Fight Club.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/01/03/Islamic-State-executes...
Britain survived the IRA. Ireland survived nazionist City of London.
It is obvious that ISIS is state terrorism, and the only question is which states.
I am not afraid.
If they don't like ISIS maybe cutting the Turks loose from NATO and the EU negotiations, while supporting an independent Kurdistan could be good. If they support the Kurds they can still imprint conditions on a Kurdistan, if they don't the Kurds can do what they like. Anybody who believes that ISIS can be fought without the Kurds and the Civil War in Turkey will evaporate, needs their head read.
If they don't like ISIS maybe cutting the Turks loose from NATO and the EU negotiations, while supporting an independent Kurdistan could be good. If they support the Kurds they can still imprint conditions on a Kurdistan, if they don't the Kurds can do what they like. Anybody who believes that ISIS can be fought without the Kurds and the Civil War in Turkey will evaporate, needs their head read.
This is all part of the plan to get Shia and Sunni killing each other.
Yinon/Yaalon Plan.
Frankly, my hat is off to everyone that got this executed.
And we are barely out of the First Act.
Wait til Hillary steps up to the plate.
It is the Yinon Plan, but I do not want Hitlery or her Hill Billy husband freakery.