Monday, April 27, 2015

Is The Saudi Government About To Unravel?

Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari

Daniel W. Drezner, Washington Post: Is the House of Saud teetering on the edge of collapse?

A top Iranian figure thinks that the Saudi government is about to crack. Is he right?

What do the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and that guy from the old E.F. Hutton commercial have in common? When they talk, people listen.

According to Iran’s government-run outlet Press TV, IRGC Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said some pretty blunt things about Saudi Arabia early Monday:

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WNU Editor: Daniel W. Drezner is correct in his analysis on the House of Saud .... talk of their (possible) demise has been greatly exaggerated.

3 comments:

  1. Really depends what happens outside the Kingdom for now.

    Yemen could blowback big time, as the three Saudi Border provinces are actually Yemeni, were supposed to be returned in 1994, and are full of Yemeni tribals.

    Then there is the little problem of all the Saudi oil sitting under the Shia provinces of the Kingdom,

    And of course, AQAP, AQ tebranded as Al Nusra and ISIS, all whom have their eyes on Saudi Arabia.

    But it won't be happening anytime soon.

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  2. I heard Vancouver was full of Chinese.

    So it should go to China.

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  3. Aizino,

    The Treaty of Taif of 1934, leased the three Yemeni Border Provinces to Saudi Arabia for 60 years, at which point, the Provinces were to revert back to Yemen.

    In exchange, Yemeni's would retain their Yemen citizenship, all Yemeni's would have full unimpeded passage into Saudi Arabia and the right to work, and Yemen was to get rents.

    1994 came and went.


    Lots's of Canadians of Chinese descent in Vancouver, not many actual Chinese. There's about 180 at the Embassy, and probably some others with just residency permits.

    The Saudi's of course, treat the Yemeni's like crap,

    http://pando.com/2015/03/28/the-war-nerd-a-brief-history-of-the-yemen-clusterfck/

    Just like they treat the Shia minority that form the majority in the Provinces where the oil is, like crap.

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