Saudis face 'divine revenge' for executing al-Nimr

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This will likely add another layer to the rotting stench that is the Middle East.......


Saudi Arabia will face "divine revenge" over its execution of a top Shiite cleric, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday hours after protesters attacked the kingdom's embassy in Tehran.

"The unjustly spilt blood of this martyr will have quick consequences," Khamenei told clerics in the capital, referring to Nimr al-Nimr who was executed along with 46 other men on Saturday.

"This scholar neither encouraged people into armed action nor secretly conspired for plots but the only thing he did was utter public criticism rising from his religious zeal."

Ayatollah Khamenei said the cleric had been executed for his opposition to Saudi Arabia's Sunni rulers.

Protesters gathered in several cities across Iran on Saturday angered by the Gulf kingdom’s execution of al-Nimr, who was put to death along with 46 other prisoners.

Nimr had been the most vocal critic of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family prior to mass protests that erupted in 2011. He called for regular demonstrations against the ruling elite. Shiites have long complained that they are victims of discrimination in the Sunni powerhouse. Nimr had often called for better protection for the country’s Shiite minority.

"This oppressed scholar had neither invited people to armed movement, nor was involved in covert plots," the ayatollah tweeted.

"The only act of SheikhNimr was outspoken criticism," he added, saying the "unfairly-spilled blood of oppressed martyr SheikhNimr will affect rapidly & Divine revenge will seize Saudi politicians".

Sheikh Nimr had been a figurehead in the anti-government protests that erupted in the wake of the Arab Spring up to his arrest in 2012.

Iran - Saudi Arabia's main regional rival - has led condemnation among Shia communities over the execution.


https://www.rt.com/news/327755-saudi-embassy-iran-protest/
 
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Saudi Arabia is Canadas partner in the war against terrorism in Syria. Will Canadas Government defend the actions of Saudi Arabia against the Despicable Iranian accusations? Or will it just STFU and do what TelAviv suggests as usual?
 
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Saudi Arabia is Canadas partner in the war against terrorism in Syria. Will Canadas Government defend the actions of Saudi Arabia against the Despicable Iranian accusations?
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The Saudi's are no ones ally when it comes to fighting terrorism.

It'll be interesting to see what happens going forward between the two countries. Im thinking just a bunch of grand standing but who knows.
 
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darkbeaver said:
Saudi Arabia is Canadas partner in the war against terrorism in Syria. Will Canadas Government defend the actions of Saudi Arabia against the Despicable Iranian accusations? Or will it just STFU and do what TelAviv suggests as usual?
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Yes the Harper Cons had a special relationship with the Saudis, and Israel but Americans long acknowledged, and accepted ties to both those countries make Canada's look like a speck of pepper on a football field. I don't know who the new Liberal govt will support but I'm sure someone will be making an official comment on this developing situation soon, and then we will know.

Canada is just not that important on the big screen.

And if you've been following all the excitement in the mid east you would realize that Canada is supporting the same people America is in Yemen yet the Saudi's are attacking those same Yemen people.

Anyways, this should be good for Oil prices.......

It's On: Saudis Sever Diplomatic Ties With Iran, Will Confront Iranian "Hostility"

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.

It's On: Saudis Sever Diplomatic Ties With Iran, Will Confront Iranian "Hostility" | Zero Hedge
 
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darkbeaver said:
Saudi Arabia is Canadas partner in the war against terrorism in Syria. Will Canadas Government defend the actions of Saudi Arabia against the Despicable Iranian accusations? Or will it just STFU and do what TelAviv suggests as usual?
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Yes because they are the main supporters of our currency being the main reserve currency of the world. As long as we have the top pyramid scheme currency and the Saudi's back it up, we will support them.
 
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tay said:
Yes the Harper Cons had a special relationship with the Saudis, and Israel but Americans long acknowledged, and accepted ties to both those countries make Canada's look like a speck of pepper on a football field. I don't know who the new Liberal govt will support but I'm sure someone will be making an official comment on this developing situation soon, and then we will know.

Canada is just not that important on the big screen.

And if you've been following all the excitement in the mid east you would realize that Canada is supporting the same people America is in Yemen yet the Saudi's are attacking those same Yemen people.

Anyways, this should be good for Oil prices.......

It's On: Saudis Sever Diplomatic Ties With Iran, Will Confront Iranian "Hostility"

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.

It's On: Saudis Sever Diplomatic Ties With Iran, Will Confront Iranian "Hostility" | Zero Hedge
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I've been trying to follow the spread of this war on four fronts. Yemen is especially important as the Saudis are hopeless at war and persist in bombing civilians. I don't think Suadi Arabia will endure in its presnt form past the hostilities as the Saudi minorities are rising
and bolsterd by Sunnis disaffected by the Monarchy. This latest mass execution was insane stupidity that the out of touch savages will not survive. The Saudis have lost a good part of thier navy and hundreds of armoured vehicles.
 
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darkbeaver said:
I've been trying to follow the spread of this war on four fronts. Yemen is especially important as the Saudis are hopeless at war and persist in bombing civilians. I don't think Suadi Arabia will endure in its presnt form past the hostilities as the Saudi minorities are rising
and bolsterd by Sunnis disaffected by the Monarchy. This latest mass execution was insane stupidity that the out of touch savages will not survive. The Saudis have lost a good part of thier navy and hundreds of armoured vehicles.
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Canada has a contract to rebuild them ;)

It's nice to see we can profit from those morons .
 
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ISIS just beheaded five Britons. What is the difference, really?
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Big difference is the west is not (officially) supporting ISIS although it's out in the open that Turkey is allowing ISIS Oil to flow through there and no one's taking out the tankers (trucks) going to Turkey. Yes. Putin was correct.

Big similarity is Saudi Arabia and ISIS are both practitioners of the strick Wahhabi order of Islam.

As soon as onlookers in the West learn to understand just how complicated this whole area is the more they will realize ISIS is no different than the majority of these countries but get the most press......


Some have warned that the Saudis are on the brink of a theological civil war pitting the larger and far stronger Sunni states against the Shiites. The Sydney Morning Herald foreign editor, Maher Mughrabi, writes that the West may find itself dragged into the violence.

"For Shiites around the world, Nimr is the latest in a long line of martyrs at the hands of tyrannical rulers. They will recall the proverbial utterance of their inspiration, the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law Ali bin Abi Talib, that "the day of the oppressed over the oppressor is more severe than the day of the oppressor over the oppressed".

"In Egypt, the Arab Spring brought democratic elections and the downfall of long-serving dictator Hosni Mubarak. The Saudis were amazed and appalled when their allies in Washington proved unwilling to back Mr Mubarak to the hilt. They were even more horrified when the Obama White House pursued dialogue and a deal with Iran over its nuclear program.

"The Saudi response has been to freelance a new, far more aggressive policy across the region, leading a coalition to invade and bombard Yemen and bankrolling the return of military rule in Egypt, which is now effectively a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia."

"The president who won Egypt's democratic elections - Mohamed Morsi - also waits in jail under a sentence of death, along with many other leaders of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The execution of Nimr surely brings the clock closer to midnight for all of those men, with potentially dire consequences for Egyptian society.

"The voices of all those in the Middle East who argue for a civic space that allows opposition voices and demands accountability from rulers have been weakened by this draconian act.

"More worryingly, the voices of those who argue that the sword of the state only understands one language - that fire can only be fought with fire - have been strengthened, making bloodshed and violence more likely not only for Saudi Arabia and its interests around the world but for all those who are allies and business partners of the House of Saud. And that could mean many Western countries."

ISIS oil trucks cross into Turkey every day, captured terrorist admits

https://www.rt.com/news/327701-isis-turkey-oil-trade/
 
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The Saudis are screwed. Lets face it, the only they don't reduce oil production is because if they did the unemployed would hang them by the short and curlies. I don't think they have many friends left.
 
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