Does ultimatum mean Iran will invade Saudi Arabia?
Call says nations should 'prevent dispatch of equipment for suppression of Bahrain'
Posted: April 23, 2011
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In what could produce a Muslim vs. Muslim military confrontation
in the powderkeg that is the Middle East, Shi'a Iran is considering
handing Sunni Saudi Arabia an ultimatum over sending its troops to crack
down on the Shi'a majority in
nearby Bahrain – a development that would be tantamount to armed
conflict between the two bastions of Islam, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
Iranian officials even have gone so far as to suggest blocking the Straits of Hormuz in the Persian
Gulf to stop ships carrying military supplies to Bahrain from the Saudi
kingdom which, along with the United Arab Emirates, sent troops there
at the request of Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa.
Al-Khalifa had requested the troops to put down an increase in violence by Shi'a protesters, who make up
some 70 percent of the Bahraini population. Both countries sent in
some 1,000 troops each along with military equipment provided to them by
the United States over time under military assistance programs.
The Bahraini regime and the Saudis blame Iran for instigating the violent demonstrations.
In what now could be a significant escalation between Iran and
Saudi Arabia, Mohsen Rezael, secretary of Iran's Expediency Council,
called for an "ultimatum" to be given to the Saudis in an effort to get
them to withdraw their forces from Bahrain.
In making his threat, Rezael said that Iran and Iraq should give deliver the warning.
"Iran and Iraq should give Saudi Arabia an ultimatum to withdraw
its forces from Bahrain," Rezael said. "Otherwise, both countries can
probe the Saudi-bound weapons in the Strait of Hormuz and prevent the
dispatch of equipment for suppression of Bahrain's people to that
country."
Just as Rezael has invoked Iraq in Iran's dispute with Saudi
Arabia, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi is to pay a visit to
Baghdad shortly with a high-ranking delegation of military and defense
officials.
As a further warning to Saudi Arabia, Supreme Leader's Adviser
for Military Affairs Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi said Riyadh's military
intervention in Bahrain also could be a pretext to foreign invasion of
Saudi Arabia should popular protests increase in the kingdom.
The Saudi regime is very concerned with increasing unrest in its
Eastern province where the population primarily is Shi'a. There already
have been a number of demonstrations there that were put down quickly
by Saudi police forces.
That region also is where most of the kingdom's oil production takes place.
"The presence and attitude of Saudi Arabia in Bahrain sets an incorrect precedence for similar future events,"
Safavi warned, "and Saudi Arabia should consider this fact that one day
the very same event may recur in Saudi Arabia itself and Saudi Arabia
may come under invasion for the very same excuse."
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