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Hardline Iranian Cleric: Saudi 'Pharaoh' will have Same Fate of Mubarak

2011-11-26

[An Nahar] Soddy Arabia's ruling al-Saud dynasty should give up power, a hardline senior Iranian holy man said Friday, warning that the fate of Egypt's toppled president Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
awaits

King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands #65;bdullah
... Fifth out of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz to ascend to the throne. He is, after his half-brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud. He has 6 sons and 15 daughters and about $20 billion. His youngest son is just seven years old...
"You should give up power and leave it to the people. They will establish a people's government," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in the weekly Moslem prayers at Tehran University.

"It is better for the al-Saud to awaken. The fate of the Egyptian pharaoh (Hosni Mubarak) and that of the (fallen) strongmen in Libya and Tunisia, ultimately, awaits the Saudi pharaoh (King Abdullah)... You should be careful," he said, as worshippers chanted "Death to al-Saud."

His remarks, broadcast on state radio, follow protests this week among the Shiite minority in Soddy Arabia's oil-rich east, resulting in four deaths since Sunday.

Shiite activists in Arab states of the Gulf are frequently accused of having links with their co-religionists in the Islamic republic.

On Wednesday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal accused Iran of interfering in neighboring Gulf states.

Tensions have heightened between Tehran and Riyadh following a U.S. allegations of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, something Tehran has repeatedly denied.

Another point of contention between the two has been the Saudi military intervention in March in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom of Bahrain to help its government quash pro-democracy protests led by the Shiite majority there.

Posted by:Fred

#3 Not perfect - Shucks, I was hoping for an easier way to deal with vicious barbarians.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-11-26 10:07

#2 Not just the Pak Army. Pakistan needs to be redesigned from the ground up, with a lot fewer Pakistanis, in a manner of speaking. Here is an ethnographic map:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/pakistan_ethnic_1973.jpg

Pakistanis East of the Indus river are Punjabi and Sindhi. They are the more "orderly" Pakistanis, who should be the substance of the future Pakistan.

West of the Indus river are the troublemakers.

The best bet would be that Pakistani Baluchistan be split off and combined with Iranian Baluchistan into a new nation, with their income being the port at Gwadar, which is substantial as a major deep water port built by the Chinese, and a good amount of unexploited mineral wealth (that the Iranians currently use in support of their nuclear program, thus depriving them of that).

North of there, Pushtu Pakistan should become part of the new nation of (exclusively Pushtu) southern Afghanistan, with the rather orderly Chitrali people in northern Pakistan becoming part of the new nation of northern Afghanistan.

This would combine disorderly peoples in such a way as to make them more orderly, eliminating much smuggling by eliminating borders, thus making smuggling far less profitable, and it would also reduce Pakistan from an international threat to an ordinary nation, while not empowering the disruptive elements.

Not perfect, which would mean a lot of genocide, but not bad.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-11-26 09:49

#1 The Saudis will pay for any war between US/Israel and Iran.

To win the WOT we also need to help India beat the Pak army.

Posted by: Paul D 2011-11-26 08:12

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