King Salman's New Year Resolution: Murder more people

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/02/saudi-arabia-executes-47-people-in-one-day-including-iranian-cleric

THe Iranians aren't happy, and there's already angry protests in Bahrain, Kashmir and Shia areas of KSA. Iraq are thinking of closing the just opened Saudi embassy, and the Shia millitias seem to be demanding so. The Yemen "ceasefire" has collapsed

Seriously, I hope the West can cut ourselves away from this despotic regime ASAP.

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Sauds are overplaying their hands at the moment. Their economy is in the crap, the rest of OPEC are getting severely annoyed at the Kingdom's oil policies that are causing so much turbulence atm, the other Gulf monarchies think the obsession with Iran is annnoying (Bahrain aside), their leadership is lazy and corrupt, their war policies are leading to chaos on their northern and southern borders and they seem to be severely ticking off the west. The worst thing for the Sauds is if the West starts to consider them a less rational actor than Iran (i.e. if the Reformists win the power struggle over there).

I would personally advocate for a total military boycott of KSA, because when the ruling clique is toppled by Muhammad al-Robespierre I don't want the West to look like  the evil sugar daddies. But what do I know? I am but a simple peasant without a portfolio of BAE and Boeing shares. Perhaps it would be better to bilaterally organise an arms boycott with Russia of the whole lot of them. Or I dunno, let Oman take the whole of MENA over. Oman seems like a pretty OK place.

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So Saudi Arabia severed its ties with Iran. Therefore, in Iran, people called for "death to America, Israel and England".

fwiw I think that the term often is translated literally, which makes it more melodramatic than it truly is means in Persian (It's more on par with "Down with", which is the sort of thing you hear shouted at in Western rallies all the time)

And are you really surprised? People view it as gospel in Iran that the KSA is a pupper of western powers. and we honestly don't help matters much in that regards...

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Kuwait pulls out from Tehran

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A host of other Arab League countries have dutifully followed behind Sugardaddy Arabia, including former Iranian BFF Sudan and Djibouti:

 

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