Saudi Arabia has cut Diplomatic Relations with Iran after their Embassy in Tehran was overrun last night.
Recent tweets say Iran has retaliated by expelling all Saudi Diplomats. They are promising "Extreme Vengence" for th execution of an Iranian Cleric by the Saudis this week.
Personally, I think this is going to end up being a lot bigger international issue than the attention it’s attracting at the moment.
The Saudis finally got fed up and executed one of Iran’s ayatollahs of the Twelver sect after years of Iranian assassination plots against their kingdom. They located this phony Sheikh Nimr character who’d been orchestrating an uprising in SA’s eastern province and got into a shootout with his men when they tried to capture him. Then they put him to the sword. Students in Tehran are once again burning embassies and gaining popular support from the average Iranian.
The Saudi foreign minister who has been the most visible Saudi voice of the Kingdom in this was Saudi ambassador to the US for over a decade until just recently. Iranian intelligence tried to murder him in NYC back in 2011 in a bombing attack at a swanky restaurant with the assistance of what they imagined were Mexican drug cartels.
The whole thing reads like a Tom Clancy novel, and there’s no Jack Ryan to save the day in real life.
If this keeps up, it’s not going to be good for oil prices; prices at the pump will skyrocket.
Do we have any idea just exactly is going on and how bad this really is?
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Nukes will be dropped. Hope it stays local.