KSA claims, West last card against Iran

It is indeed a time and again failed scenario to say the Islamic republic has been behind a bombing or an assassination attempt against Saudi, Israeli or any other nation’s ambassadors or nationals in different countries.

Here is the latest story of the type; Egypt has uncovered a terror plot against the Saudi ambassador to Cairo masterminded by Iran.

It was only last October when the US, in full coordination with Saudi Arabia, charged that it has foiled an Iranian sponsored terror plot against Riyadh’s envoy to Washington. A story that was unbelievable, even for the US organizations and media and to some extent some of the country’s officials.

A few months later, there was the bombing at the Israeli embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi. This incident again was falsely blamed to have been orchestrated by the Islamic Republic. Apparently, the wife of the Israeli ambassador, not himself, had been injured. Why should anyone think there is something to achieve from injuring an ambassador’s wife for a country potentially capable of sending missiles to Tel-Aviv if need be wondered many observers and sounded as remote a possibility to them as to the scenario makers themselves.

Again, around the same time the stories of alleged Iran sponsored bombings in Thailand and Georgia emerged and again surprisingly no one got killed or even injured as one can expect once familiar with such trends except a few alleged MKO (or MKO inspired) elements whose clumsy handling of their operation is a shame for any terrorist anywhere in the world!

Clumsy, of course, was the picture the ones behind such scenarios have been trying to portray of the ‘Iranian agents’!

However, when it comes to terrorism against Iran, one sees its real instances where people including prominent nuclear scientists get killed for real! The ones who intend to frame Iran in the totally made up scenarios of terrorism ought to think twice before totally losing face for incriminating a country, whose scientists get victimized and whose officials have been lost to terrorist acts.

In the recent case, it goes without saying the Saudis are trying to cover up for their failures during the developments of the past year in some Arab countries, especially Egypt. Their officials and nationals have been regularly on the run in Egypt in recent days after Riyadh arrested an Egyptian lawyer in Saudi Arabia and the subsequent closure of the Saudi embassy in Cairo. Observers describe the current tension between the two countries as unprecedented. It is not unthinkable at all that the Saudis embark on imaginary stories to rid themselves of the Egyptian public and media pressure. After all, relations have proven, beyond doubt, to be very shaky between the two Arab powerhouses after the fall of Egypt’s dictator of three decades Hosni Mubarak for whom Riyadh would have done anything not to have collapsed.

Saudi Arabia is seemingly again playing into the hands of America and Israel. It has done in numerous occasions, last example of which is the anti-Iran saga in Washington last year. By doing so, it is only helping the US secure the Israeli regional position. Iran and Egypt are two strong pillars of the world of Islam and the prospective re-establishing of Tehran-Cairo relations, suspended under Mubarak, at a time when Saudi Arabia has to rent a Cairo hotel for the safekeeping of its nationals while quickly sending them home one by one these days, and as Tel-Aviv is desperate for some support against Iran whose nuclear energy case, Israel’s favorite card to play, is on the verge of being resolved, can help shape up in one’s mind fears the Saudis, Americans and Israelis each experience in their own way.

In his latest remarks, Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz has backed another false claim against Iran. This time by the UAE over three genuinely Iranian Persian Gulf islands. Interesting yet ironic is that, he, nor any other Saudi official ever makes mention of the fact that it is, indeed, Riyadh that has occupied and annexed a great part of the UAE’s oil rich regions or that sending troops to Bahrain last year amounts to invasion of a sovereign country that has to deal with its internal affairs. Even more interesting is that Nayef makes the remarks in the meeting of the interior ministers of the [Persian] Gulf cooperation council [P]GCC and no one apparently remembers about or objects to the numerous Saudi adventures even within the six member states.

The fact of the matter is that, in the broader picture, the Riyadh’s octogenarian rulers are afraid of the awakening of the Arab nations against their regimes. They are afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Tunisia and Qatar. They are afraid of the fate that befell Hosni Mubarak and Zine El Abidine Bin Al. Iran’s growing ties with Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and potentially Egypt sends shivers up their spine and seeing the repeat of what happened in the Cairo, Tunis and Tripoli streets in Riyadh this time has become their nightmare.

The country has, therefore, chosen to be the last US/Israeli card against Iran. The kingdom, like Israel, clearly sees survival in its current form in antagonism towards Tehran.

BH/JR

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