Arabia Saudí, EAU, Bahréin y Egipto cortan sus relaciones con Qatar por “apoyar al terrorismo”

[Bubi]

Lo quye estña claro es que todo esto estña llevando a unaa hipotectica alianza

Iran-turquia-Rusia-Qatar que hace 6 años hubiera sonado pura ciencia ficcción....


basicamente porque os iranies se llevan fatal historicamente con los turcos, los turcos se llevan mal con los iranies y los rusos, los rusos se llevan mal con los turcos, los catarie stienen una relación tensa con Rusia ... vamos que no es un grupete de viejos amigos,

pero de aqui sale una alianza la mar de rara motivada por la necesidad de frenar a Arabia Saudi

Queda europa y su postura en este lio....

Ingletarra pese a sus reticencias tirara para el lado que marquen los americanos, Alemania es proclibe e Iran-Qatar y Francia en teoria también, pero habbra que ver para donde oscila finalmente Macron

 

[el porqué de las cosas]

Lo quye estña claro es que todo esto estña llevando a unaa hipotectica alianza

Iran-turquia-Rusia-Qatar que hace 6 años hubiera sonado pura ciencia ficcción....


basicamente porque os iranies se llevan fatal historicamente con los turcos, los turcos se llevan mal con los iranies y los rusos, los rusos se llevan mal con los turcos, los catarie stienen una relación tensa con Rusia ... vamos que no es un grupete de viejos amigos,

pero de aqui sale una alianza la mar de rara motivada por la necesidad de frenar a Arabia Saudi

Queda europa y su postura en este lio....

Ingletarra pese a sus reticencias tirara para el lado que marquen los americanos, Alemania es proclibe e Iran-Qatar y Francia en teoria también, pero habbra que ver para donde oscila finalmente Macron

a esto añádele que el Estado de Israel está claramente, y en primera linea, en bloque saudí...hasta ahora se contentan cara a la galería, pero ya no les importa: llevan atacando abiertamente posiciones del gobierno sirio y con ello, dando apoyo a los wahabistas mercenarios sirios. lo que sabíamos desde hace años los que seguimos el tema, que Israel, con Arabia Saudí está detrás de los terroristas que quieren quitar a Assad, ya es de conocimiento publico.

Macron es alumno Young Leaders Class 2012 French-American Foundation, compartiendo organisation y visiones con Bill y Hilary Clinton (class 1983 y 1882, respectivamente)
https://frenchamerican.org/youngleadersclasses
además de ser su mentor y padrino Jacque Attali, judio y guru del Order out of Caos, que "vendrá después de la obligada 3º Guerra Mundial"...
Pocas dudas creo yo que haya...

 

[Bubi]

a esto añádele que el Estado de Israel está claramente, y en primera linea, en bloque saudí...hasta ahora se contentan cara a la galería, pero ya no les importa: llevan atacando abiertamente posiciones del gobierno sirio y con ello, dando apoyo a los wahabistas mercenarios sirios. lo que sabíamos desde hace años los que seguimos el tema, que Israel, con Arabia Saudí está detrás de los terroristas que quieren quitar a Assad, ya es de conocimiento publico.

Macron es alumno Young Leaders Class 2012 French-American Foundation, compartiendo organisation y visiones con Bill y Hilary Clinton (class 1983 y 1882, respectivamente)
https://frenchamerican.org/youngleadersclasses
además de ser su mentor y padrino Jacque Attali, judio y guru del Order out of Caos, que "vendrá después de la obligada 3º Guerra Mundial"...
Pocas dudas creo yo que haya...

yo a Macron no lo veo tan claro


mas que nada creo que si es listo tirará a favor de iran y catar, le conviene mucho mas y es mas del gusto de berlin

una cosa son los mentores, a los que agradeces mientras estás subiendo, y otra lo que haces cuando coges la poltrona. En la poltrona ya situado lo que mas le conviene es ir con berlin y alejarse de los anglosajones, la unica manera de que Francia tenga mas poder en la UE y mostrar esa imagen que consolidaria su liderazgo en francia mostrando los que sus votantes quieren, es que la Merkel le de poder y ya`puede tener 100 mentores que Merkel por el momento le da 10 vueltas y la canciller se está trabajando a Macron para que ea su ratoncito y alejarlo del la conrriente anglosajona. Yendo con GB y USA ahora tal como está la cosa, Macron no solo no gana nada y se mete en lios inecesarios sino enfadaría la frau. Si es listo, ser alejará como de la polvora de la onda yankee.

 

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sea como sea, @Bubi, si no estalla la Guerra Madre en el OM será un milagro...

A major war in the Middle East is now more likely than ever
#SyriaWar
The growing confrontation between the US and Russia in eastern Syria, combined with escalating tensions between Saudi and Iran, could spill over into conflict

Shahir Shahidsaless
Monday 26 June 2017 09:29 UTC

The situation in Syria, and in the Persian Gulf region, is threatening to spiral into a regional and possibly even a global conflict.

Following the shooting down of a Syrian warplane by a US Navy jet on 18 June, tensions between the United States and Russia have escalated dramatically.

In response, the Russian Defense Ministry released a statement warning that it would track as targets international coalition aircraft and drones found operating west of the Euphrates River. The Russians also abruptly suspended a hotline with Washington intended to avoid collisions between Russian and US forces in Syria, although US officials have since claimed the hotline is still in use.

In the absence of collaboration between the US and Russia and under a hostile environment between the two powers, the Middle East could erupt into a raging inferno

On 19 June, an American reconnaissance plane was intercepted by a Russian fighter over the Baltic Sea. According to US officials at the United States European Command, the two aircraft were only a few feet apart at times.

In another potentially dangerous incident, on 21 June, a Nato warplane approached the Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea which carried Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu. A Russian Su-27 escort fighter showed up and tilted its wings to show its weapons, whereupon the intruding Nato plane flew away.

A day before, on 20 June, a US fighter jet shot down an Iranian-made drone over Syria.

In another incident, according to the Israeli army, on 26 June, the Israeli Air Force attacked Syrian government forces’ artillery positions after 10 projectiles fell on the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights.

While no independent body has yet confirmed the validity of Israel’s claim it is worth noting that the incident occurred one day after Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that Israel will not allow Iran to establish a permanent presence on the Golan. Whether the move will provoke a response from Assad supporters, allowing Israel to open an eastern front against President Assad remains to be seen.

War of words
In the aftermath of the recent developments in US-Iran relations, the shooting down of the Syrian warplane and the Iranian drone have sharply increased the tension between the US and Iran - tension which has the potential to escalate into a broader conflict.

First, on 14 June, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for regime change in Iran. He told the House Foreign Relations Committee that Iran was destabilising the region and promised that the United States would support “those elements inside the Islamic Republic which would bring about peaceful government transition”.

In response, Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, slammed the US government in a fiery speech stating: “The American rulers do not know the Iranian nation,” adding that “the new White House leaders are like nascent hooligans who scare people by brandishing their knives until somebody punches them in the mouth and puts them in their place.”

Referring to Tillerson’s statement, Khamenei noted: “They say they want to change the Islamic Republic establishment. Well, when have you not wanted to do this? You always wanted and you always failed and your nose has been rubbed in the dirt; and it will be like that from now on.”

'Anytime we have multiple armed forces working in the same battle space without de-confliction, there is a dangerous risk of things spinning out of control'
- Douglas E Lute, retired US general

There is also a new battlefront between Russia and Iranian proxies in Syria on one side and the US and its allied forces on the other over control of southeastern Syria, an area close to the Iraqi borders where the main highway between Damascus and Baghdad crosses. The route is strategically important to Iran because it links Syria to Iraq and further east to Iran. Control of this road would enable Tehran to connect to its main ally in the region, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, through Syria.

The Americans intend to gain control over eastern Syria because, as explained in the New York Times, after the defeat of IS “what is really at stake are even larger issues. Will the Syrian government re-establish control of the country all the way to its eastern borders? Will the desert straddling the Syrian-Iraqi border remain a no man’s land ripe for militant control? If not, who will dominate there - forces aligned with Iran, Russia or the United States? Which Syrian factions will wield the most influence?”

US forces, accompanied by Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters, drive their armoured vehicles the border with Turkey in APril 2017 (AFP)
The Times notes, “With all these forces on a collision course, several recent escalations have raised fears of a direct confrontation between the United States and Iran, or even Russia.”

This situation is a recipe for war. According to Douglas E Lute, a retired three-star Army general who was the US representative to Nato until January, “anytime we have multiple armed forces working in the same battle space without de-confliction, there is a dangerous risk of things spinning out of control. … Tactical incidents on the ground or in the air over Syria can be misunderstood and lead to miscalculation.” As one international relations expert maintains: “War can occur without misperception, but rarely.”

Crown prince's war talk
What makes the situation worse is the ever-increasing hostility between Iran and Saudi Arabia. On 7 June, IS terrorists launched attacks on Iran’s parliament and on the tomb of the country’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, following explicit threats by Saudi prince Mohammad bin Salman in early May.

“We won’t wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. Instead, we’ll work so that the battle is for them in Iran,” bin Salman remarked. Iranian government officials, from the leader down, have expressed no doubt that the Saudis were behind the terrorist attacks.

On 9 June 2017, a funeral is held for victims of the 7 June attacks in Tehran (AFP)
Mohammad bin Salman is the architect of the new, openly aggressive Saudi foreign policy toward Tehran. On 21 June, he was appointed as the new crown prince of Saudi Arabia, making him next in line for the throne. The novice politician, who will mark his 32nd birthday in August, calls the shots on the kingdom’s foreign policy, will maintain his post as defence minister, and will supervise the Saudi economic reforms including in the oil sector.

While Israelis lauded the appointment as “good news for Israel and the US,” former US ambassador to Israel, Daniel B Shapiro, called it “dangerous” with respect to Iran. Mohammad bin Salman’s appointment as crown prince makes the possibility of an Iran-Saudi conflict even more likely.

Mohammad bin Salman is the architect of the new, openly aggressive Saudi foreign policy toward Tehran

A glaring example which presents the outside world with a first glimpse of the dangerous foreign policy of the newly-elected, de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, is a list of the conditions presented to Qatar on 23 June for lifting the sanctions imposed by Saudi-led bloc.

According to the Associated Press, the list stipulates 13 conditions including the closure of the Qatar-funded broadcaster Al-Jazeera, a Turkish military base, and cutting back all diplomatic ties with Iran.

Many observers contend that curbing ties with Iran is central to the list. The demands completely violate international norms, first and foremost the sovereignty of states. Demands of such nature were not imposed even on the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, after Iraq’s defeat in the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Trump's forgotten promise
Against this perilous backdrop, no party shows any intention of de-escalation, especially the two nuclear superpowers. During Donald Trump’s election campaign, the Republican candidate offered hope that the United States would seek Moscow’s cooperation on global issues.

The US risks war with Iran in eastern Syria. It should focus on fighting IS elsewhere

Many hoped for the formation of an alliance between the two powers to uproot IS in Syria and to bring an end to the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in the country. It was hoped that as a result of US-Russian cooperation, the Hobbesian state of “war of all against all” in Syria would be stopped and the two major regional rivals, Iran and Saudi Arabia, would reconcile.

In his first press conference after his election, Trump repeatedly said that it would be “positive,” “good,” and even “great” if “we could get along with Russia”.

In the absence of collaboration between the US and Russia and under a hostile environment between the two powers, the Middle East could erupt into a raging inferno as a result of a far-reaching war.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/major-war-middle-east-now-more-likely-ever-893905523

 

[Bubi]

parece ser que los qataríes aguantan el chaparrón, y se ponen firmes... y le hacen la peineta a los saudís... a ver como sigue todo pero no parecve que vayan a amedrentarse tan rápido como esperaban los saudís.


ECONOMÍA
Qatar desafía el aislamiento anunciando un incremento del 30 por ciento de su producción de gas natural

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Saad al-Kaabi Sherida, presidente Qatar Petroleum durante su anuncio de ruptura del bloqueo comercial NASEEM ZEITOONREUTERS
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Qatar, el mayor productor mundial de gas natural licuado, confía en capear el temporal. Aislada desde hace un mes por sus vecinos del golfo Pérsico, el emirato ha mostrado este martes músculo. Qatar Petroleum ha anunciado que incrementará un 30% su producción en los próximos años.

"Aumentaremos nuestra capacidad de los 77 a los 100 millones de toneladas anuales, lo que representa un incremento del 30%. Este proyecto fortalecerá nuestra posición como el mayor productor y exportador de gas natural licuado del planeta. Seguiremos siendo líderes durante mucho tiempo" ,avanzó ayer Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, presidente de la compañía estatal en una rueda de prensa.

El ambicioso anuncio se produce un día antes de que Arabia Saudí, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Báhrein y Egipto se reúnan en El Cairo para estudiar la respuesta qatarí al listado de 13 demandas exigidas para levantar el bloqueo terrestre, marítimo y aéreo que sufre el emirato desde el pasado 5 de junio. Entre las cláusulas no negociables, figuran el cierre de la televisión Al Yazeera, el alejamiento de Irán y los Hermanos Musulmanes y la clausura de la base militar turca en su territorio.

Con uno de los mayores PIB por habitante del mundo e inversiones repartidas por toda Europa, Qatar ha logrado sortear el aislamiento con ayuda de Irán, Turquía y Omán. El es un nuevo desafío a Arabia Saudí, inmersa en un amplio programa de reformas para reducir su adicción al petróleo.

Para lograr el aumento, Doha ha decidido doblar el tamaño del proyecto de explotación del mayor campo de gas del mundo, unas instalaciones descubiertas en 1971 que comparte precisamente con Irán y cuyo desarrollo había mantenido congelado en virtud de una moratoria de 12 años impuesta por las autoridades qataríes.

"Una vez concluidos los pormenorizados estudios técnicos, la mejor opción es duplicar el tamaño del proyecto a los 4.000 millones de pies cúbicos de gas al día, lo que supone un incremento del 20% y equivale a alrededor de un millón de barriles de crudo diarios", detalló al-Kaabi. A su juicio, la ampliación -prevista para dentro de 5 a 7 años- "elevará la producción de Qatar hasta los seis millones de barriles de petróleo al día".

Según al-Kaabi, la expansión podría requerir la firma de una joint venture con una empresa internacional. El proyecto, ha subrayado, seguirá adelante a pesar de la adversa situación regional y de los embargos. Entre las represalias que sopesan el cuarteto de países responsables del bloqueo, se contempla suspender la participación de Qatar en el Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo; sancionar a los países que sigan comerciando con el país u obligar a los inversores a elegir. "Si no hay compañías dispuestas a trabajar con nosotros, lo haremos solos", aseveró al-Kaabi.

Qatar es el cuarto suministrador de gas natural en España por detrás sólo de Argelia, Nigeria y Noruega, con alrededor del 7,9%. Mantiene un acuerdo con Gas Natural para la compraventa de gas natural, precisaron recientemente fuentes qataríes.

 

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Qatar seals 5-billion-euro navy vessels deal with Italy

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulf-qatar-italy-idUSKBN1AI1VS

...ojo...en euros...

 

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todos condenando a Maduro...y aquí no pasa na'...a los 10 días de lo ocurrido...un articulo tímido en la BBC....algo es algo...

Awamiya: Inside Saudi Shia town devastated by demolitions and fighting

• 16 August 2017

Image copyrightREUTERS/FAISAL AL NASSER
The BBC's Sally Nabil has been given rare access to Awamiya in Saudi Arabia, a town in the east of the Sunni Muslim-ruled kingdom that has been rocked in recent months by deadly clashes between security forces and Shia militants that were triggered by the demolition of its old quarter.
"You will have only a few minutes on the ground. When we say 'go', you will have to leave at once," a Saudi police officer told us firmly as we got on an armoured vehicle heading to Awamiya.
As we approached the town, escorted by special forces, officers kept talking to their commanders over the phone to make sure the convoy was safe to proceed.
The security situation in Awamiya remains unstable, although the government says it is in control.

Image copyrightREUTERS/FAISAL AL NASSER
Image captionThe Saudi interior ministry has blamed the unrest on "terrorist groups"
When we got to Awamiya, the scale of devastation was shocking. It looked like a war zone - as if we were in Mosul or Aleppo.
The town, which lies in the Qatif region of oil-rich Eastern Province, was home to about 30,000 people, most of them Shia.
Now, there is nothing left of the once vibrant residential area but bullet-riddled houses, and burned-out cars and shops - a testament to the heavy fighting.
Members of Saudi Arabia's Shia minority have for years complained about what they perceive as discrimination and marginalisation at the hands of the Sunni monarchy.
But their protests have always been met by a crackdown.
"The Saudi regime does not accept opposition, whether it comes from a Sunni or a Shia. They are just intolerant," Ali Adubisi, the director of the Berlin-based European-Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, told me.

Image copyrightREUTERS/FAISAL AL NASSER
Image captionThe local authorities say they have been demolishing "dilapidated buildings"
As I walked around Awamiya, I saw a few bulldozers standing in the middle of the wasteland.
In May, the authorities started demolishing the 400-year-old al-Musawara area, as a part of what it says is a "development project".
"Eighty houses were demolished, and we still have about 400 more to go. These are dilapidated buildings, they should be modernised," acting mayor Essam Abdullatif Al-Mulla told me.
"Families have been relocated after being generously compensated and offered alternative houses."

As soon as the demolitions started, the confrontation in Awamiya took a violent turn.
Shia groups accused police troops of forcing people to leave, with the aim of crushing dissent.
Activists say security forces sealed off the town's entrances and exits in late July, denying remaining residents access to essential services such as medical care.

Image copyrightREUTERS/FAISAL AL NASSER
Image captionShia groups have accused the authorities of forcing thousands of people to leave
The violence has killed more than 20 civilians, among them a three-year-old boy who died on Wednesday, in addition to at least five militants, according to activists.
The Saudi authorities say eight police officers and four special forces personnel have died, but did not release any information on civilian and militant deaths.
The interior ministry has blamed the unrest on "terrorist groups who have been in the area for years".
A statement said government forces had been attacked repeatedly with rocket-propelled grenades, Molotov cocktails and machine guns.
"Terrorists indiscriminately killed civilians, and used them as human shields. People fled because they felt threatened by the militants," it added.

Image copyrightREUTERS/FAISAL AL NASSER
Image captionActivists say the violence has left more than 20 civilians and five militants dead
But there is another version to this story.
I managed to find a Saudi man who recently fled Awamiya, and is now seeking asylum in Germany.
"Security forces would shoot everyone - a man, a woman, an elderly person, or even a child," he said.
"For days I couldn't step out of my house. I was too scared."
The man, who asked us not to identify him as he feared for his life, told me he had never personally taken up arms but that he understood why some people had chosen to do so.
"You can be sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia just because you are a Shia and you belong to a different religious sect."
"The people are deprived of their freedom and dignity and might even be executed in unfair trials. They won't remain silent forever. If someone shoots you, you will have to shoot back."

Image copyrightREUTERS/FAISAL AL NASSER
Image captionActivists say security forces sealed off the town's entrances and exits in late July
The man recalled the start of the Shia protests in Awamiya in early 2011, when people emboldened by the Arab Spring uprisings across the region took to the streets.
"We were peaceful protesters, but security forces used to disperse us with live ammunition," he said.
Since then, hundreds of people have been arrested. Human rights groups say Specialised Criminal Courts, set up for terrorism cases, have sentenced more than three dozen men and boys to death after convicting them of protest-related crimes following unfair trials.
Activists fear that 14 protesters, including four found guilty of offenses committed when they were children, could be executed at any moment.
They include the nephew of Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, a prominent Shia cleric and vocal critic of the government who was convicted of terrorism offensives and executed in January 2016.

Image copyrightREUTERS/FAISAL AL NASSER
Image captionA poster mourning the executed cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr still hangs on a lamppost
Our brief visit to Awamiya was interrupted by gunshots, fired from a distance.
We did not know whether it was the police, or the armed groups. But we had to leave at once, just as the commander said.
On our way back, I looked through the car window, and wondered if life would return to this ghost town any time soon.
It is very difficult to tell, as the reasons for the unrest are still very much present.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40937581

'This is not Aleppo': Shock at extent of destruction of Saudi Shia town
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/awamiya-rubble-49215058

 

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...el enemigo de mi enemigo es mi amigo...

Israel Deployed 18 Fighter Jets To Saudi Arabia To "Prevent A Coup": Fars

22 Junio 2017
While according to the official narrative, the Saudi power transition on Wednesday, when King Salman bin Abdulaziz announced his decision to replace Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz with his own son, Mohammed bin Salman, went smooth and by the numbers, what took place behind the scenes is more interesting.
Here, events were decidedly more interesting, because as Fars News reports (so take it with a grain of salt), after the decision was announced, the Israeli air force sent 18 of its fighter jets, including F16-I, F15-CD and F16-CD, along with two Gulfstream aircraft, two tanker airplanes and two C130 planes, special for electronic warfare, to Saudi Arabia at the demand of the new crown prince bin Salman to block his cousin (bin Nayef)'s possible measures.
On the surface, such close ties between the existing Saudi regime and Israel would appear a stretch, although it is far more plausible after this week's WSJ report that when it comes to the Saudi proxy war, Israel and Saudi Arabia had been alligned from the onset of the Syrian conflict, with Israel secretly supplying Syrian rebels near its border with cash as well as food, fuel and medical supplies for years, "a secret engagement in the enemy country’s civil war aimed at carving out a buffer zone populated by friendly forces."
If true, the Fars report would be rather striking because, in addition to other geopolitical implications, Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have formal diplomatic relations.
According to the Times of Israel, "a spokesperson for the IDF said the army does not comment on foreign media reports. An Israeli military insider ridiculed the report as absurd."

As a reminder, just days ago, the Saudi king stripped Nayef - who was against Saudi involvement in the Yemen civil war - of his powers overseeing criminal investigations and designated a new public prosecution office to function directly under the king’s authority. In a similar move back in 2015, the Saudi king had appointed his nephew, then deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef as the heir to the throne after removing his own half-brother Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud from the position. His replacement as the new Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, 31, was also named deputy prime minister, and shall maintain his post as defense minister. He has been described as the real power behind his father’s throne.
The power struggle inside the House of Saud came to light earlier this year when the Saudi king began to overhaul the government and offered positions of influence to a number of family members. In two royal decrees in April, the Saudi king named two of his other sons, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Prince Khaled bin Salman, as state minister for energy affairs and ambassador to the United States, respectively.
None of this is new, but where Fars provides new details is that in late April, Mohammad bin Salman "literally bribed the new US administration by paying $56m to Donald Trump." There is no official confirmation of this allegation. Fars further adds that "bin Salman was paying off the US to buy its support for finding a grip over the crown."
"Since Uncle Sam's satisfaction is the first step for the Saudi princes to get on the crown, paying off Washington seems to be a taken-for-granted fact," Rami Khalil, a reporter of Naba' news website affiliated to the Saudi dissidents wrote.
He added that since the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) is like a sword over the head of the al-Saud, they have no way out but to bribe the US, noting that the Yemen quagmire is also another reason for Riyadh to seek Washington's support.
Also, a prominent Yemeni analyst said earlier this month that the US has been paid several trillion dollars by Saudi Arabia to protect its crown, adding that Riyadh has recently bribed Washington's support for the Yemen war with $200bln.
"Washington has asked for more money to defend the Saudi regime and Riyadh has recently paid $200bln to the US for the costs of its support for the war in Yemen," Saleh al-Qarshi told Fars News Agency. "This is apart from the huge amounts of money that Saudi Arabia pays to the US treasury for protecting its crown," he added. According to al-Qarshi, "former Saudi Intelligence Chief Turki al-Feisal revealed last year that his country has bought US treasury bonds to help the US economy."
Meanwhile, as defense minister, Mohammed bin Salman has faced strong international criticism for the bloody military campaign he launched against neighboring Yemen in 2015 amid his rivalry with bin Nayef, the then powerful interior minister. Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led war has so far killed at least 14,000 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.
* * *
It was not immediately clear if, assuming the Fars report is accurate, Israeli forces are still located in Saudi Arabia, or if the fears of a coup have since dissipated.
Separately, the Times of Israel reports that in a recent television interview aired in May on Saudi TV, bin Salman delivered a strong warning to Iran and ruled out any dialogue with officials there. Framing the tensions with Iran in sectarian terms, he said it is Iran’s goal “to control the Islamic world” and to spread its Shiite doctrine.
“We know we are a main target of Iran,” the prince said, warning that he “will work so that it becomes a battle for them in Iran and not in Saudi Arabia.”
For its part, Iran’s state TV, when it isn’t claiming that bin Salman is propped up by Israel or the US, described the appointment of bin Salman this week as a “soft coup in Saudi Arabia.”
Credibility of the Fars report aside, as Petromatrix' Olivier Jakob reported yesterday, the shocking Saudi shakeup means it is "Not A Question Of If But When New Escalation With Iran Starts."
Finally keep in mind that with Saudi Arabia desperate to raise the price of oil, and with every other measure failing, there is always one dependable fall back when all else fails: war.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...8-fighter-jets-saudi-arabia-prevent-coup-fars