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Title: Saudi Arabia recruits Sunni allies in row with Iran
Source: Yahoo News
URL Source: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/iran-says ... e-fuel-tensions-071734328.html
Published: Jan 4, 2016
Author: Sam Wilkin
Post Date: 2016-01-04 12:57:53 by nativist nationalist
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Comments: 11

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia rallied Sunni allies to its side in a growing diplomatic row with Iran on Monday, deepening a sectarian split across the Middle East following the kingdom's execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric.

Bahrain and Sudan cut all ties with Iran, following Riyadh's example the previous day. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Reuters Riyadh would also halt air traffic and commercial relations between the rival powers.

He blamed Iran's "aggressive policies" for the diplomatic action, alluding to years of tension that spilled over on Saturday night when Iranian protesters stormed the kingdom's embassy in Tehran.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), home to hundreds of thousands of Iranians, partially downgraded its relations but the other Gulf Arab countries -- Kuwait, Qatar and Oman -- stayed above the fray.

Shi'ite Iran accused Saudi Arabia of using the attack on the embassy as an "excuse" to sever ties and further increase sectarian tensions, as protesters in Iran and Iraq marched for a third day to denounce Saudi Arabia's execution of Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.

A man was shot dead in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province late on Sunday, and two Sunni mosques in Iraq's Shi'ite-majority Hilla province were bombed in the fallout from the dispute between the Middle East's top Sunni and Shi'ite powers.

Oil prices spiked during European trading as the two big petroleum exporters traded insults and after violence hit other crude producers such as Iraq. But prices then eased back on evidence of economic weakness in Asia.

Stock markets across the Gulf dropped sharply, led by Qatar which fell more than 2.5 percent, with geopolitical jitters outweighing any benefit from stronger oil.

Crude importer China declared itself "highly concerned" with the developments, in a rare foray into Middle East diplomacy. The United States and Germany called for restraint, while Russia offered to mediate an end to the dispute.

The row threatened to derail efforts to end Syria's five-year-old civil war, where Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab powers support rebel groups against Iran-backed President Bashar al-Assad.

In neighboring Lebanon, newspapers said the spat had clouded the hopes of filling the vacant presidency that had been raised last month after Iran and Saudi Arabia both voiced support for a power-sharing deal.

Nevertheless, analysts said fears of a sectarian rupture across the Middle East were premature, and the break in relations could be more a symptom of existing strains than evidence of new ones.

"The fact that the UAE was unwilling to cut off ties with Iran completely, despite the closeness of its relations with Saudi Arabia, shows the difficulty that the Saudis will have in trying to isolate Iran," said Julien Barnes-Dacey, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

"The downgrading of ties is not fundamentally a question of responding to executions and the storming of an embassy... (but rather) a function of a much deeper conflict between the two states," he added.

"DIVINE REVENGE"

After a furious response in Shi'ite communities worldwide to the Sunni kingdom's execution of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Iran was creating "terrorist cells" among the kingdom's Shi'ite minority.

Saudi Arabia executed Nimr and three other Shi'ites on terrorism charges on Saturday, alongside dozens of Sunni jihadists. Shi'ite Iran hailed him as a "martyr" and warned Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud family of "divine revenge".

Shi'ite groups united in condemnation of Saudi Arabia while Sunni powers rallied behind the kingdom, hardening a sectarian split that has torn apart communities across the Middle East and nourished the jihadist ideology of Islamic State.

Al-Azhar, the Cairo-based seat of Sunni Muslim learning, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Saudi Arabia, condemned the attacks on Riyadh's missions and stressed Tehran's obligation to respect the internal affairs of the kingdom.

Bahrain, a Sunni-ruled island kingdom with a restive Shi'ite majority, accused Iran of "blatant and dangerous interference" in the affairs of the Gulf Arab countries, in a statement announcing the severing of diplomatic ties.


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The Nawasib are sticking it to the Rawafid, LOL!

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#1. To: nativist nationalist, redleghunter, Pericles (#0) (Edited)

The Nawasib are sticking it to the Rawafid, LOL!

I saw the Iranians keep escalating the war of words, calling the Saudis a "corrupt criminal unjust Takfiri terrorist regime".

This is where you get into the weeds a bit.

Takfiris have been classified by some commentators as violent offshoots of the Salafi movement, yet while Salafism is seen as a form of 'fundamentalist Islam', it is not an inherently violent movement that condones terrorism.[7] Takfiris, on the other hand, condone acts of violence as legitimate methods of achieving religious or political goals. Middle East expert Robert Baer has written that

"takfiri generally refers to a Sunni Muslim who looks at the world in black-and-white; there are true believers and then there are nonbelievers, with no shades in between. A takfiri's mission is to re-create the Caliphate according to a literal interpretation of the Qur'an."[8]

Which sounds a lot like the Wahhabis (a Saudi export globally). And ISIS (funded by the Saudis in Shi'a Iraq and in Syria.

I don't know all the lyrics but that tune is familiar. Those are fighting words, I think.

Blood will be spilled. Hopefully, not too many innocent bystanders will die.

The death of so many Iranians during that Ramadan stampede and that crane collapse a few months back is still a fresh wound and Iran thought the Saudi response was inadequate. Certainly it contributes to the bad blood. The attacks on Yemen by the Saudis is another open wound.

Tooconservative  posted on  2016-01-04   17:29:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: TooConservative (#1)

We used Takfiri a lot in info ops handbills and leaflets in Anbar and north of Baghdad. The Iraqi Sunnis already had enough of AQI and found fighting them as Takfiri rallied more towns to the ISF.

redleghunter  posted on  2016-01-04   23:20:44 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: redleghunter (#2)

We used Takfiri a lot in info ops handbills and leaflets in Anbar and north of Baghdad. The Iraqi Sunnis already had enough of AQI and found fighting them as Takfiri rallied more towns to the ISF.

Interesting. I thought you might be familiar with the term. Apparently, it's a Thing in Islam, a potent word.

Tooconservative  posted on  2016-01-05   4:09:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: TooConservative (#4)

Interesting. I thought you might be familiar with the term. Apparently, it's a Thing in Islam, a potent word.

We have a similar term in the USA to stigmatize people in order to group them:

Here it is:

Fundamentalists Christian gun toting Tea Partier.

redleghunter  posted on  2016-01-05   8:48:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#6. To: redleghunter (#5)

We have a similar term in the USA to stigmatize people in order to group them:

I know, it is an obvious comparison.

These loaded terms are used for both domestic and foreign psy-ops, to manipulate our citizens and foreigners too.

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