It should have been splintered into several small entities (like the Gulf coast sheikhdoms) in the 1930s-1940's.
The Brits were AWOL on this.
The oilfields should have never ended up in the hands of the House of Saud. You know it's a bad combination when a Wahhabi bunch of tribal leaders control both the oil and Mekka.
The European colonial powers had no problem screwing up totally secondary places on the world... but here is one spot it would have made sense. Sheesh.
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
Sunna or later, Shi’ite happens..
• The abandonment of Western-backed secular officials in the Arab world.
• Salafist control of the media.
• The abolition of mundane laws passed by secular regimes and the implementation of Shari’a.
Sounds more like the sleeper cell we have in the white house!.
The Shi’a minority in Saudi Arabia is concentrated in and around the eastern Al-Hasa province....which happens to be where the major oilfields are. Iran could arm the Shi’ites and make controlling the oil difficult for the monarchy.
The Saudis arrested some Shi’ite Iran-backed cleric awhile ago. Iran’s been screwing around there and in Bahrain, because the population is mostly Shi’a but the monarchy is Sunni. Also in Kuwait; the Kuwaitis busted an Iranian espionage network at the Iranian embassy in Kuwait City made up of Shi’ite Kuwaitis and Iranian laborers.
Salafi-Jihadi internet forums continue to warn of Shi'a plots to control the Sunni Arab regions of the Middle East, most recently in a posting entitled "The Sleeper Cells of the Rejectionists -- The Danger Within -- Iran's Upcoming War of Bubbles"... The posting compares the gradual Iranian escalation to the bubbles in boiling water -- the longer the United States maintains pressure on Iran, the more allies Iran will draw into the confrontation (such as Hamas and Hezbollah), with each new ally acting as another bubble in boiling water.
Fascinating article, great post. There are numerous points of interest in the piece, but the most amusing thing is seeing Salafi Islamists worried about terrorism.