Iran Saudi Houthi Yemen Hostages
February 10, 2010 by
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Iran is still fighting a proxy war with its old enemy the House of Saud of Saudi Arabia, does the arrest of 5 British sailors send a deeper political message about Iran's ambitions to control the waters around Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf?
Esfoni, if you don’t think this current “revolution” is being backed by the West again, you’ve got alot more reading to do.
You identify with Iran, strange that you live in US? That aside I do not identify with any western or middleastern govt, or crime family that is the point of the vid, which in your zeal you missed, I am against neo-feudalism & religious inspired organized crime.
I don’t find the passing of oil-crime families bitter at all, I welcome it I am pro-clean energy & pro-EU.
Please listen to the vid again don’t just project on to me your own view or we will not find a meeting point of reason.
All Best
What goes around comes around!!!???
U.K., USA, and The West in particular; cooked this hideous and horrifying regime in their lucky pot and fed the uneducated, inexperienced and ham-handed portion of Iranians with it over thirty years ago!!!???
They have turned against the masters now!
Weve had thirty years of it, now its your turn to taste your own cooked delicacy!
It’s bitter and harmful, isnt it?
I wonder why you are calling the british sailors hostages. They have done something illegal and detained for that (and now freed). When the british soccer hooligans ransack Brussel and get picked up by the Belgian police, do you call them hostages?
True, Iranians are IndoEuropean people, but they see themselves as an independent pole of power. The West does not like that at all. But most of the Arab regimes, specially the ones on the Gulf rim, willingly accommodate the West and bow to its demands. So, I predict the relations between Iran and UK to remain sour for some time to come.
The Shia revival rests on 3 pillars: the newly empowered Shia majority in Iraq, the current rise of Iran as regional leader, and the empowerment of Shias across Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, and Pakistan. The three are interconnected & each reinforces the others. Together they ensure a greater Shia voice in M…iddle East politics and are pressing events toward a new power distribution in the region.
The US saw the Middle East far too often through the eyes of the authoritarian Sunni elites in Islamabad, Amman, Cairo, and Riyadh, who were America’s major local allies. Even in Western scholarly tomes on Islam, the Shia received only cursory treatment. As the Middle East changes and the Sunni ascendancy continues to …come under challenges, the U.S. perspective in the region must change as well. – Vali Nasr’s “Shia revival”, is a very good read if your interested)
Iran and Hezbollah are the custodians of the Palestinian cause, and a resurgence in Shiism has disturbed many Sunni Arab (Wahhabi/Salafi) religious leaders who feel threatened by Shiites (a minority sect in Islam, prevalent in Iran,Iraq,Lebanon,Bahrain). The terrorists my friend who are terrorizing americans and iraqis’ are coming from jordan, saudi arabia, pakistan, they are not sunni iraqi’s but wahhabi/salafi radicals.
why do you say gult? you have been to school havn’t you? what is the name they teach you in school (which is internationally recognized by UN and world countries)
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What you say about saudi arabia and houthi rebels is correct, the Sunni Arabs committment to freeing palestine and resisting the Zionists has been a lost promise and in their previous wars with Israel there arms seemed ineffectual.
Hezbollah in 2006 changed all that. Sunni Arab people watched Shia’s with admiration.