SAUDI-IRANIAN FRIENDSHIP?

Will Iran and Saudi Arabia become friends?

On 3 August 2011 it was reported that, according to Iranian MP Hossein Sobhaninia:

"Certain Western countries are concerned about the development of a strong relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia."

(West concerned over Tehran-Riyadh strong ties: MP)

"Iran and Saudi Arabia plan to strengthen their relations and clear up misunderstandings, Tehran’s ambassador to Riyadh has said.

"Mohammad Javad Rasouli Mahallati told Saudi newspaper Al-Watan that Iran and Saudi Arabia should make efforts to clear up misunderstandings in order help promote their relations.

"Mahallati added current policies adopted by the officials of the two countries show that there is a positive tendency to resolve current disagreements.

"He went on to say certain countries are trying to fan the flames of current disagreements between Tehran and Riyadh."

(Iran, Saudi Arabia plan to clear up misunderstandings: envoy)

‎"As the United States prepares to withdraw its troops from Iraq to meet a year-end deadline, Iranian-backed Shiite insurgents have stepped up their attacks on U.S. troops while Saudi Arabia has begun to provide assistance to Sunni militias there, according to a report."

('This implies protracted and well-funded irregular warfare')

"Riyadh-Tehran relations are at their worst since the Saudis were funding Saddam Hussein’s legions to mow down Iranian infantry in the 1980s...

"Change in Damascus could upset relations with Tehran, severing its main logistical link to Hezbollah.

"Suddenly, there is the prospect of a Sunni-led Syria to counterbalance the Shia dominion in Baghdad...

"Riyadh has ... reportedly discussed with Washington increasing its crude supplies to China as a way to lure Beijing into reducing its investment in Iran’s energy sector...

"Iran remains resilient and has seen some improvements in its relations with Pakistan and Afghanistan, where US influence is waning..."

(The summer heats up as friction mounts between Saudi Arabia and ...)

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aangirfan: SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN WORRY ABOUT LIBYA

SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN WORRY ABOUT LIBYA

Saudi Arabia and Iran are nervous about the CIA coups in North Africa.

On 6 June 2011, Anissa Haddadi, at the International Business Times, asks: Are the Libyan rebels backed by Saudi Arabia or by Iran?.

According to Anissa Haddadi:

1. Obama asked Saudi Arabia to arm the rebels in Libya.

Apparently, Saudi Arabia has not armed the rebels.

2. Saudi Arabia prevented the rebel leaders from reaching Qatar, where they had meetings planned.

3. Iran is sympathetic to the "Islamic awakening" in Libya but opposes the Nato military strikes.

4. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said: "The 'double standard' action of the Western countries in Bahrain and Libya and their silence towards the atrocities of the Zionist regime against the innocent Palestinians shows their contradictory performance in the world."

The supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said: "Iran ... condemns the (NATO) military action in Libya."

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USA WANTS COUP IN BAHRAIN

Saudi troops head into Bahrain, March 2011.

The US government wants change in Bahrain.

According to Elliot Abrams, of the Council on Foreign Relations:

"There will be no justice and no democracy until the royal family is gone."

(Elliott Abrams: Bahrain.)

The ruling family in Bahrain may not survive.

The mainly Shia protestors may yet topple the Sunni al-Khalifa monarchy.

This is important to both Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have helped the Bahrain monarchy to crush dissent.

The Sunnis make up about 40% of the population of Bharain.

On 2 June 2011, The Economist reports ("The loathing persists") on the possibility that Bahrain will become like Iraq.

"The spectre of sectarian bloodletting in the manner of Lebanon and Iraq still frightens many people...

"Some Westerners are packing their bags...

"Banking, which once accounted for over a quarter of Bahrain’s wealth, is searching for safer climes."

The Economist reports (The loathing persists) on the Sunni-Shia divide.

"Teachers arrange 'thank you, Saudi' days in schools.

"The Bahraini king's men have razed dozens of Shia shrines and put up billboards on main roads near Sunni-populated suburbs, depicting nooses dangled over the heads of Shia leaders.

"Hundreds of public-sector Shias have been suspended, to the delight of Sunni immigrants from such places as Pakistan and Bangladesh seeking promotion.

"The Labour Market Regulatory Authority has purged the private sector of Shias suspected of sympathy with the protesters...

"Parliament has been stripped of many of its Shia representatives...

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"CIA AND SAUDI SNIPERS IN SYRIA"

It is being reported that CIA and Saudi snipers are killing protestors in Syria, in order to discredit the Syrian government.

Video Reporting Possible CIA/Saudi Snipers in Syria

The same sort of technique would appear to have been used recently in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.

There are earlier examples of such CIA activity in Thailand (2010) and Indonesia (1998).


News clip from Iran's Al-Alam News Network

A CNN report from April 5, 2011 cited a Syrian official who stated that "an unknown "armed group" on rooftops shot at protesters and security forces."

MORE HERE: Video Reporting Possible CIA/Saudi Snipers in Syria

Color Revolution's Mystery Gunmen

SAUDIS GET PAKISTAN HELP VERSUS CIA?

Bandar and Bush



VIDEO: Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia gets Pakistani military support to counter any CIA Colour Revolution.

A Russia-Saudi-Pakistan-China Bloc could challenge Wall St. and the City of London

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aangirfan: BIG CHANGES - SAUDI ARABIA TO TUNISIA

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MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND PORN

Arifinto, linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.

On 11 April 2011, we learn that, in Indonesia, an anti-porn Member of Parliament has resigned.

He was caught watching porn during a parliamentary debate.

Indonesian MP resigns after being caught watching porn during parliament debate

Arifinto, a member of the Islamic Prosperous Justice Party, helped pass a tough anti-pornography law.

A photographer took pictures of Arifanto gazing at porn.

Most Indonesian Moslems are moderate and liberal.

But, reportedly, the Saudis have been pouring money into the CIA-linked extremists.

The extremists have pushed through several nut-case laws, including the pornography law.

Indonesians can be jailed for up to 15 years, or fined, for kissing in public, exposure of a woman's bits and pieces or displaying erotic art.

In January 2011, the anti-porn law was used to jail Nazril 'Ariel' Irham, lead singer of Indonesia's most popular band Peterpan, after two home-made sex tapes appeared on the internet.

Hidayat Nur Wahid, founder of Indonesian radical Islamic Prosperous Justice Party PKS (Indonesian Democracy’s Enemy Within)

When the CIA was trying to frustrate democracy in Central America, they used Moslem money, from the Saudis. (Cached)

In Indonesia, money from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf has been financing mosques and preachers demanding a 'purer' form of Islam. (Indonesian Democracy’s Enemy Within)

Beginning in the 1970s, "activists linked to the Saudi-sponsored Islamic World League began indoctrinating small groups at the prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology with Brotherhood materials". (Indonesian Democracy’s Enemy Within)

In 1998, there was the possibility that Indonesia would change its government and become a democracy like Malaysia, where there is no miserable poverty.

Unfortunately, Indonesia's American-trained military hijacked the 1998 protest movement.

The May 1998 riots which toppled Suharto were organised by the military; certain Chinese people were made the scapegoats for all of Indonesia's problems; most of the old elite, consisting of generals, Chinese-Indonesian businessmen, religious leaders and politicians, remained in power; certain factions within the elite lost out.

Now sections of the elite are using Islam to frustrate democracy.

Indonesia's Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) 'is Indonesia's version of the Muslim Brotherhood'. (Playing with Fire in Indonesia).

"According to CIA agent Miles Copeland... the CIA began to cooperate with the Muslim Brotherhood... This signalled the beginning of an alliance between the traditional regimes and mass Islamic movements against Nasser and other secular forces." (aangirfan: The use of the Muslim Brotherhood by MI6 and the CIA in ...)

Why do some poor Indonesians vote for the PKS? They are fed up with "corruption, poor public services, poverty, and the perceived lack of real political choice." (Playing with Fire in Indonesia)

The PKS have been friends with Indonesia's president Yudhoyono, a former Suharto general.

Reportedly, the "founding manifesto" of the Justice Party that went on to become the PKS, called for the creation of an Islamic caliphate. (Indonesian Democracy’s Enemy Within)

According to Walter Lohman, "The Indonesian political elite... believe they can turn the PKS's success to their own advantage..." (Playing with Fire in Indonesia)

Why might the CIA be helping the PKS?

Walter Lohman (Playing with Fire in Indonesia) reminds us of "the threat of a burgeoning Chinese presence in Asia."

A Saudi-style Indonesia will have no love for China, and may side with the USA in countering it.

An independent-minded democratic Indonesia might not side with the USA.

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SAUDI - IRAN TENSIONS

In 2010, Wikileaks disclosed that Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah urged the US to attack Iran, describing Iran as a snake whose head should be cut off without any procrastination.[33]

In April 2011, we read of tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

According to Iran's PressTV, 'Saudi Arabia seeks to annex Kuwait'

According to a top Iranian, Saudi intervention in Bahrain is considered 'occupation'.‎

Some Arabs see an Iranian conspiracy to target Kuwait and Bahrain (GCC countries)

Many thanks to C. for the links.

LIBYA AND SAUDI ARABIA

Chinese President Hu Jintao; King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz.

The USA has asked Saudi Arabia to supply the anti-Gaddafi rebels with anti-tank rockets and mortars. (America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels)

Meanwhile, the USA seems to be plotting against Saudi Arabia. (BIG CHANGES - SAUDI ARABIA TO TUNISIA)

US defense planners are preparing a range of land, sea and air military options in Libya, the New York Times has reported. (US Weighs Options, on Air and Sea)

BIG CHANGES - SAUDI ARABIA TO TUNISIA

"I believe the People's Republic of China delivered a turn-key nuclear ballistic missile system to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the course of several years beginning no later than December 2003," wrote Jonathan Scherck in his book 'Patriot Lost'. (Website for this) image)



In January 2011, we find violence or serious tensions in the Sudan, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Algeria, Yemen and Iraq.



Note that the chief friends of the CIA-Mossad, Saudi Arabia and Morocco for example, do not appear on this list.



(Don't relax Saudi Arabia - You are next?)



The Financial Times reports that Internet social networks in US-allied Saudi Arabia are spreading messages of solidarity with Tunisian and Algerian protesters.

Presumably the spooks allow and encourage such messages.

Time magazine reports that if the rulers of Tunisia and Algeria fail to line up with the requirements of the US 'war on terror,' Washington might consider replacing them.

What does the Council on Foreign Relations want?



On 7 January 2011, Elliott Abrams wrote (Elliott Abrams: Is Tunisia Next?):



"Tunisia, whose literacy rate has long been the highest in Africa at nearly 80% and whose per capita GDP is about $8,000, should have the ability to sustain a democratic government—once the Ben Ali regime collapses.



"Tunisians are clearly sick of looking at all the giant photos and paintings of Ben Ali that appear on walls, posters, and billboards all over the country...



"If Tunisia can move toward democracy, Algerians and Egyptians and even Libyans will wonder why they cannot."

Tunisia. Do these people look ragged and poor? People Power is usually organised by the security services of one country or another. The CIA-Mossad can infiltrate the police and military and arrange a few shootings.



Libya has accused Mossad and its friends of being behind the riots in Algeria and Tunisia.



(The Libyan foreign security agency has accused Mossad and Morocco.)



It is easy for the CIA-Mossad to topple a president or prime minister.



Philip Agee worked for the CIA and exposed some of its misdeeds in his book Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1975).



What Agee wrote about Ecuador could apply to Tunisia, or Saudi Arabia, or any other country.



Agee wrote that, in Ecuador, almost all political organizations were infiltrated by the CIA, often at the highest levels. (Ecuador Killing Hope WBlum)



Agee explained that, in Ecuador, various CIA front organisations were set up.



Union leaders were taken over by the CIA.



In virtually every department of the Ecuadorean government there were people working for the CIA.



At one point, the CIA could count amongst this number the men who were second and third in power in the country.



CIA agents would bomb churches or right-wing organizations and make it appear to be the work of leftists.



CIA agents would march in left-wing parades displaying signs and shouting slogans of a very provocative anti-military nature.







Tunisia's President Bin Ali has done a lot to build a sound economy.



Living standards are as high as in oil-rich states such as Libya.



"Special funds for micro-credits and employment did wonders in poverty alleviation and job creation in the 1990s and beyond." (Bin Ali - Al Jazeera English)



A comment at the Guardian web site (Tunisia's single-president politics.) sums it up:



"Most Tunisians could not care less who rules them, so long as the eceonomy keeps growing (which it does), the Islamists are kept quiet (which they are), the poverty rate remains very low (4 percent - compared to about 15 percent in the UK and US), the education system provides their kids with a decent education (the best in the Arab world), that they have access to a first-rate health system (free of charge), and that the government does not invade their private lives (prostitution is legal and regulated, for instance; CCTV cameras do not follow your every movement)...



Tunisia by Citizen59



"Opposition groups in Tunisia have next to no support, and nobody has even heard of the bloggers...



"It's what we might call the Singaporean model: economic prosperity and security first, democracy later. Western and Arab liberals may not like it, but Tunisians and Singaporeans do..."



But, the USA and its friends want a Tunisian regime that will allow in lots of American companies, and that will follow the dictates of Washington and Tel Aviv.



And, the USA and Israel like their Arab friends to be backward, feudal and easy to control



Yesterday Iran, Indonesia, Iraq...



Today Tunisia.

Tomorrow Saudi Arabia?

MOSSAD MAYHEM IN MAGHREB MEDINAS?



aangirfan: OBAMA PREPARING COUP IN TUNISIA?



aangirfan: SOROS OR SOME CHINESE GUY? ELLIOT ABRAMS SPEAKS



aangirfan: PEOPLE POWER - THE CIA CONNECTION

aangirfan: Saudi Arabia - You are next?

BIG CHANGES - SAUDI ARABIA TO TUNISIA

"I believe the People's Republic of China delivered a turn-key nuclear ballistic missile system to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the course of several years beginning no later than December 2003," wrote Jonathan Scherck in his book 'Patriot Lost'. (Website for this) image)



In January 2011, we find violence or serious tensions in the Sudan, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Algeria, Yemen and Iraq.



Note that the chief friends of the CIA-Mossad, Saudi Arabia and Morocco for example, do not appear on this list.



(Don't relax Saudi Arabia - You are next?)



The Financial Times reports that Internet social networks in US-allied Saudi Arabia are spreading messages of solidarity with Tunisian and Algerian protesters.

Presumably the spooks allow and encourage such messages.

Time magazine reports that if the rulers of Tunisia and Algeria fail to line up with the requirements of the US 'war on terror,' Washington might consider replacing them.

What does the Council on Foreign Relations want?



On 7 January 2011, Elliott Abrams wrote (Elliott Abrams: Is Tunisia Next?):



"Tunisia, whose literacy rate has long been the highest in Africa at nearly 80% and whose per capita GDP is about $8,000, should have the ability to sustain a democratic government—once the Ben Ali regime collapses.



"Tunisians are clearly sick of looking at all the giant photos and paintings of Ben Ali that appear on walls, posters, and billboards all over the country...



"If Tunisia can move toward democracy, Algerians and Egyptians and even Libyans will wonder why they cannot."

Tunisia. Do these people look ragged and poor? People Power is usually organised by the security services of one country or another. The CIA-Mossad can infiltrate the police and military and arrange a few shootings.



Libya has accused Mossad and its friends of being behind the riots in Algeria and Tunisia.



(The Libyan foreign security agency has accused Mossad and Morocco.)



It is easy for the CIA-Mossad to topple a president or prime minister.



Philip Agee worked for the CIA and exposed some of its misdeeds in his book Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1975).



What Agee wrote about Ecuador could apply to Tunisia, or Saudi Arabia, or any other country.



Agee wrote that, in Ecuador, almost all political organizations were infiltrated by the CIA, often at the highest levels. (Ecuador Killing Hope WBlum)



Agee explained that, in Ecuador, various CIA front organisations were set up.



Union leaders were taken over by the CIA.



In virtually every department of the Ecuadorean government there were people working for the CIA.



At one point, the CIA could count amongst this number the men who were second and third in power in the country.



CIA agents would bomb churches or right-wing organizations and make it appear to be the work of leftists.



CIA agents would march in left-wing parades displaying signs and shouting slogans of a very provocative anti-military nature.







Tunisia's President Bin Ali has done a lot to build a sound economy.



Living standards are as high as in oil-rich states such as Libya.



"Special funds for micro-credits and employment did wonders in poverty alleviation and job creation in the 1990s and beyond." (Bin Ali - Al Jazeera English)



A comment at the Guardian web site (Tunisia's single-president politics.) sums it up:



"Most Tunisians could not care less who rules them, so long as the eceonomy keeps growing (which it does), the Islamists are kept quiet (which they are), the poverty rate remains very low (4 percent - compared to about 15 percent in the UK and US), the education system provides their kids with a decent education (the best in the Arab world), that they have access to a first-rate health system (free of charge), and that the government does not invade their private lives (prostitution is legal and regulated, for instance; CCTV cameras do not follow your every movement)...



Tunisia by Citizen59



"Opposition groups in Tunisia have next to no support, and nobody has even heard of the bloggers...



"It's what we might call the Singaporean model: economic prosperity and security first, democracy later. Western and Arab liberals may not like it, but Tunisians and Singaporeans do..."



But, the USA and its friends want a Tunisian regime that will allow in lots of American companies, and that will follow the dictates of Washington and Tel Aviv.



And, the USA and Israel like their Arab friends to be backward, feudal and easy to control



Yesterday Iran, Indonesia, Iraq...



Today Tunisia.

Tomorrow Saudi Arabia?

MOSSAD MAYHEM IN MAGHREB MEDINAS?



aangirfan: OBAMA PREPARING COUP IN TUNISIA?



aangirfan: SOROS OR SOME CHINESE GUY? ELLIOT ABRAMS SPEAKS



aangirfan: PEOPLE POWER - THE CIA CONNECTION

aangirfan: Saudi Arabia - You are next?

Saudis Spoil The Party

It is easy with hindsight to say that it was coming but it was. Even the combined wills of 90,000 partisan Indonesian fans couldn’t stop Saad Al Harthi’s header crashing high into Pitoy’s net three minutes into injury time.

The free-kick was taken right in front of the press box – one which seemed to have more supporters than reporters – and the location was an inviting one with several tall Saudis waiting in the middle just one good cross away.

So, instead of 1-1 it was 2-1 to the three-time champions. Instead of a draw against South Korea next Wednesday, Indonesia will almost certainly need to put the Taeguk Warriors to the sword and relieve the visitors of all three points, though in an Asian Cup full of surprises, such a thing is not beyond the realms of possibility.



Earlier the same evening, Gelora Bung Karno wasn’t a stadium stunned into silence by Haarthi’s header - it had been rocking. Buoyed by the team’s thrilling 2-1 win over Bahrain four days previously, the locals had responded by snapping up all tickets more than 24 hours before kick-off.

Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur may be resistant to the delights of the Asian Cup but Jakarta has been coming down with a full-blown fever and it was contagious.


To say the atmosphere was deafening would be an understatement. Even 45 minutes before kick-off, it was special. In such surroundings it is easy to get carried away and believe that anything is possible – the fans certainly did.




They had been told to come early as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had decided to pay his first ever visit to the national arena to see the team. Security was tight and the khaki of the uniformed security guards was a sharp contrast to the strangely attractive green and white shirts that the liaison officers sported.

It was Saturday night with the Saudis. Unlike the fans, most of whom were sporting ‘unofficial’ national team shirts, the local scribes were not confident of keeping out the visitors. “You saw our defence against Bahrain, it is not good,” said one.

That may be but the hosts have buckets of pride and passion and while the three-time continental champs had more of the possession in a lively opening period, it was Indonesia who had the chances.

Elie Aiboy missed a sitter from three yards after ten minutes and will still shaking his head when Saudi striker Yasser Al-Qahtani was sticking his on a great cross from Ahmed Al Bahri to put his team ahead.



The crowd barely missed a beat and continued to roar on the reds and they were rewarded five minutes later as Aiboy made up for his earlier miss by rounding the goalkeeper and coolly slotting the ball home.

Indonesia finished the half with a couple of good chances and hopes were high at half-time. There was still a sneaking suspicion that another goal was necessary to secure the point that would have satisfied every spectator –from the legions of security guards who never took their eyes from the action to the president himself.



As the second period progressed, the Saudis took control and started to make chances. The crowd were quieter than they had been all night; they were nervous, the local scribes were nervous and I was nervous.

The referee may have been over-fussy during the game but was correct to award a free-kick just outside the right side of the Indonesian penalty area. As the Saudis lined up the kick, and crowded the six yard box with their tallest players, it was not difficult to predict what was going to happen.

That cross found the head of Saad Al Harthi. Haarthi missed a sitter during injury time against Korea and had been vilified by the Saudi press. Redemption was his as he headed the ball firmly into the net - the Saudis’ second aerial goal of the game.

While the goal was probably deserved, it was cruel as all last-minute winners are. You didn’t need to be an expert in the local language to understand the general sentiments that were being expressed by those in the press box and outside.

The Saudi scribes were on their feet though. One of them seemed to be hit by a missile. I had been warned that Indonesians fans don’t take defeat very well and are prone to fighting after losing. Outside the stadium, that didn't seem to be the case - the atmosphere outside was calm and slightly sad.

There is still one game left though and it should be a cracker.

Copyright: John Duerden & Soccerphile

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