THE WEST, ISLAM AND SHARIA
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
Note:FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
by Richard Radcliffe
Debka reports that an Iranian parliamentarian close to President Ahmadinejad has threatened Saudi Arabia over its policies towards its Shiite minority.
The warning to Riyadh came from Iranian parliament Mohammed Dehgan, one of the closest and most influential members of the Ahmadinejad circle.It was couched in stark and brutal terms:“The Saudi leadership should know that the Saudi people have become vigilant and do not allow the rulers of the country to commit any possible crime against them,” said Dehqan. “Saudi Arabia should account for the suppressions of the Shiite and Sunni people in the country for numerous years.”He went on to threaten that Saudi Arabia, whose Shiite minority accounted for at least 15 percent of its population, could be the next target of the revolution engulfing the Arab world.The Iranian lawmaker went on to warn Saudi Arabia against interfering in the course of events in Bahrain and Yemen. Dehqan and other senior Iranian officials have also warned Saudi Arabia to stop taking the fingerprints of Iranians entering the kingdom – or face reprisals.Debkafile’s Gulf sources find three major implications in the harsh Iranian warning to Riyadh:
1. Tehran is for the first time taking an overt stand on the Arab uprisings, using their Shiite minorities as levers of manipulation.
2. Iran is flexing muscle for the first time in the role it covets of regional superpower which calls the shots for the oil states and challenges US supremacy.
3. Iran wants Riyadh to call off the preventive measures Saudi security and intelligence have been conducting for some days to offset a Shiite uprising on the Day of Anger (March 11), including the arrests of political and religious activists. (Edited for space.)
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Analysis:
Another reason why the Iranians may be creating havoc in the Persian Gulf is to get out from under the UN and US sanctions. Our friends in Iran send us almost daily reports on how life in Iran is going downhill quickly as is the Iranian economy.
The mullahs are having a lot of trouble controlling their own dissidents. Why not create messes elsewhere to take the heat off?
The warning about staying out of the affairs of Bahrain and Yemen is also telling.
We must at all times remember what the goal of the Yazdi faction is: the return of the Hidden Imam and the establishment of Shi’i Islam as the dominant sect of Islam.
To do this the Shi’i must destroy the House of Saud as the Guardian of the Two Mosques.
This is the title, given to them by ibn Wahhab in the middle 1800s, that gives the House of Saud the religious credentials to rule Saudi Arabia.
The practical effect of the revolts in Bahrain is to threaten the Saudi oil fields and provide a jumping off point for a possible assault on the Two Mosques (Mecca and Medina) by the Houthi tribesmen probably augmented by the IRGC Qods Force.
As far as I know, the two Iranian naval vessels that recently passed through the Suez Canal and are now docked in Latakia, Syria did not drop any cargo in Yemen. They easily could have except that they were being continuously watched.
At the moment the Iranians have two advantages. They are operating on interior lines of communication and they have the rest of the World scared of the closing of the Straits of Hormuz.
It is, therefore, relatively easy for the Iranians to use their Qods Force to supply and direct the Shiite uprisings in places like Bahrain. The same is true of the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia which is mostly Shiite.
The Iranians would like to be free to send in their Qods Force operatives to places like Dahran and cause glorious messes on March 11. We must wait to see how effective the Saudi security measures are.
These events, along with the Muslim Brotherhood lead disturbances in Egypt, Jordan and especially in Lebanon lead me to believe that we are on the cusp of a major religious war in the Middle East.
I firmly believe that the Muslim Brotherhood is being funded and directed by Iran through their Qods Force and Hezbollah to Hamas in the Gaza.
I wonder just how much aid the Libyan revolutionaries are getting from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood via the old Special Air Service and Long Range Desert Group routes through the Qattara Depression and into southeastern Libya.
The SAS raised holy hell with Rommel’s forces in Cyrenacia during World War Two using those routes to get into Cyrenacia and even into Tripolitania. I doubt that knowledge has simply been forgotten.
We live in interesting times.
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With thanks to World Threats
Within the last week I posted a report that Iran plans on building a permanent naval base in Syria.
This was the most disturbing news of the week and not another report or comment since this was revealed. I wondered at the time, how is it that a nation that threatens nuclear holocaust to the West/Israel and anyone who gets in its way is allowed to send ships through the Suez Canal, port at Syria and come and go as it pleases, without any world leader demanding it "cease and desist" immediately from spreading its poison throughout the Middle East.Also, disturbing, was Obama's reaction to the two Iranian war ships, intimidating Israel and the ME, by brushing it off with a "Don't Worry, Be Happy" sloppy, demeaning comment to Israel, rather than confront Iran, the so-called "sanctioned" nation!
If Iran plans on placing its Navy ships along the coast of Syria, then I would suggest they build and when almost completed, have a few IAF fly-overs ... it would have to be Israel, since the world is sleeping while the enemy is at the front door of the State of Israel, and as Israel is apparently the only nation wise enough to be concerned about this latest brazen, cobra-like sneakiness of Iran.
And if, as this article states, Saudi Arabia has cause for concern, so does the entire Arab Middle East, which makes me wonder if the White House has received a 3:00AM phone call(?). Mr. President, if Iran planned on building a Navy base off the shores of Florida, would you be concerned, or would you sit back and say, "Hey, don't worry, be happy!"
