Saudi Arabia offers refuge to 300 Iranian clerics in case of revolts

Satellite Television | 6/14/03 | Satellite Television

[freedom44]

According to Persian Satellite Television the leaders of Saudi Arabia have offered refuge to Top Iranian Clerics in case of mass revolts.

[freedom44]

on or off iran ping

[MEG33]

Nice.

[Steel Wolf]

That's too bad, I was kinda hoping they'd run to Afghanistan or Iraq.

[tet68]

"After you.
No, after you.
NO, after YOU.
Say do you think I look fat?
No you look just right.
Ok, after you.
OK, so all 300 of us can stay at your house?
Ok."

[McGavin999]

Look at that magnificent carpet.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Abdul, is that a bomb belt under your toga, or have you just been with your camels?

[BOBTHENAILER]

Thanks for this post. the ticking is getting louder and faster.

Check this out gentlemen.

[xJones]

Oh well, why not? They also took in Idi Amin.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!!

This is a good sign!

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[ImpotentRage]

Let me get this straight. The Saudis are our friends, right? The Iranian mullahs are not our friends, right? Am I not getting something here?

[McGavin999]

This must be getting serious or the Saudis wouldn't be offering sanctuary.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Get all the bad guys in one spot, makes it easier to vaporize them!

[Courier]

How does that go again?

You're with us or with the terrorists.

Seems the Saudis are with one of Bush's Axis of Evil.

And they are with Bush. And worse, he is with them because they are "our friends the Saudis".

So where are we?

I'm sorry that this isn't a "Bush in Jeans", but a Bush in genuflect.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[McGavin999]

The Iranian mullahs are NOT the friends of Saudi Arabia either. They are offering sanctuary to fellow muslims, and more importantly, because they are the guardians of the faith because the two most important muslim sites are located in SA. I think they are required to offer.

[AntiGuv]

Good. Any reason encouraging them to get out of Persia is good enough for me..

[Pan_Yans Wife]

In the future, when Iraq has oil wealth, and can compete with the Saudis, the Saudis will be in big trouble. They are already running into difficulty, being blackmailed by the terrorists today. Perhaps we just ran a circle around them, and they will bring about their own downfall. Remember the recent bombings in Saudi Arabia?

[tet68]

Look at that magnificent carpet.


And to think it only took the eyesight of 15 twelve year old boys to make it too. Stunning.

[mware]

If they are offering to take in the clerics. This is getting serious.

[Steel Wolf]

Maybe the Saudis just want to kick the Shi'ite our of them, and bring them to the light of the Sunni?

Seriously, though, there can't be that close of ties between these guys, as they're from competing and rival sects. I'm sure the Saudi option isn't one that anyone would be really thrilled with.

[truth_seeker]

"Get all the bad guys in one spot, makes it easier to vaporize them!"

Shiites and Sunnis alike, apparently.

So much for the notion that these two factions of the "religion" are not aligned.

They are aligned, in support of world terror. They are aligned in trying to take their people back to earlier, barbaric times.

[tet68]

I think they are required to offer.

Probably so, still I just don't think I'd want the Godfather staying at my house too long. He might just start
thinking it was .......... his.

[xJones]

Am I not getting something here?

I'm confused also. Iranian mullahs are Shi'ite. Saudi Arabia's state religion is officially a Wahhabi branch of Sunni Islam, although they do have Shi'ites. Shi'ites constitute 10% of Muslims. I thought the Wahhabi Sunni Muslims didn't like the Shi'ite Muslims, believing them to be heretics.

Maybe the Sows are trying to help pull out the rug from under the reigning Iran Shia mullah regime.

[dixiechick2000]

Wow!

Thanks to you both!

[dogbyte12]

This is good. Let's put them all in one place. It makes the clean up effort easier later. In fact we should encourage the IDF to exile Yassir and his ilk to Saudi Arabia.

They can make the country as nutty as they want with the fundamentalism. They act up outside their borders though, and they get zapped. Other muslim countries get to stay moderate.

I equate it to "Catholic" countries that aren't the vatican, jewish enclaves that aren't Jerusulem. Mecca and Medina are the centers of faith. You wanna keep that place fundy, fine. Let's just put all the fundies there. Saudi Arabia should be the place for them. Free Iraq and Iran. We have guides. Turkey and Jordan aren't exactly our best buddies in the world, but we tolerate each other quite well. Jordan is a monarchy, Turkey is parliamentary. Both majority muslim, but not whacked out of their skulls. That is quite doable.

[Dog]

Mullah: Does this sarong make me look fat?

[Courier]

"they're from competing and rival sects"

Which doesn't amount to Shit(e), when it's Islam against the Infidals, US.

[Carry_Okie]

Offering Shias refuge in the Sunni heartland?

Wild.

[Bobby777]

"push out your hands, stick out your tush, hands on your hips, give 'em a push, do it again, you're doing the French Mystique ... voilà!"

[McGavin999]

I'm sure the Saudis are aware of that and will make sure that any guesthouse they offer is well away from anything even vaguely looking like civilization. There is a great deal of antagonism between the Wahabbi and the Shiia.

[Let's Roll]

ooh - "Sows" - double mooselimb insult - female and porcine

Excellent!

[MinuteGal]

CAPTION:

"After you, my dear al Alphonse"

"No, after you my dear al Gaston".

"Never mind, let's both get the al outta here!"

Leni

[McGavin999]

LOL!

[Steel Wolf]

"they're from competing and rival sects"

Which doesn't amount to Shit(e), when it's Islam against the Infidals, US.

The Saudi's actually did us and the Persians a favor on this one, and I wouldn't be suprised if Bush had called them to suggest it. The reason is simple, Sun Tzu pegged it 2,000 years ago.

Always leave your enemy a way out.

It shouldn't be a real way out, of course. You have to give him the impression that there is somewhere he can go, so he's not forced to make a last stand and fight like a cornered animal. Saudi Arabia is perfect. If things get too hot, they'll try to go there as a government in exile. That may seem like a better option than being attached to a tree (by the neck), but would place them in the same country that has, that's right, U.S. troops.

What we don't want is them to make a last stand that they could survive. Getting the mullahs to cut and run is infinitely preferable.

[Maigret]

Get all the bad guys in one spot, makes it easier to vaporize them!

ROFL that is EXACTLY what I thought!

[Miss Marple]

Thank you. At last someone sees the strategy in place here! I sometimes despair of freepers understanding what's going on.

[Travis McGee]

When dictators start discussing their exile options, the end is near.

ATTACH THEM TO TREES!

[Courier]

I will wager you whatever you like that the Saudis are giving them support.

Do you really believe that the Saudis want a Democratic Iran added to the possibly of a Democratic Iraq and would do anything to further that happening?

It would be the end of the Saudis.

Hope you're right. Doubt it.

[ganeshpuri89]

The photo that heads this post is of Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal and Iranian President Mohamed Khatami.

Although the Iranians deny it, one of the main reasons of FM al-Faisal's visit to Iran concerned members of al-Qa'ida that Iran allegedly has in custody.

The Saudis are most interested in Said al-Adel, who is widely believed to have given the order for the Riyadh attacks. Al-Adel is also on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists.

The Iranians say that they have al-Qa'ida members in custody but have been unable to identify them.

Yeah, right.

Also the Egyptians, it is reported, are keen to acquire members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad that Iran has put under arrest. EIJ is Zawahiri's outfit. Members of EIJ took part in the attack on the US embassies in East Africa 1998.

[sheik yerbouty]

"Behold! There is room for my gherkin!"

[ganeshpuri89]

Sorry typo. Saif al Adel, not Said. My bad.

And I might add that he, too, is affiliated with Zawahiri's outfit.

[GrandMoM]

Get all the bad guys in one spot, makes it easier to vaporize them! ....Right ON!!!!!!!!!

[Steel Wolf]

Do you really believe that the Saudis want a Democratic Iran added to the possibly of a Democratic Iraq and would do anything to further that happening?

I really believe that the Saudis want to go on being the rulers of Saudi Arabia. Since they are both rich and weak, this means being everyone's friend, and no one's enemy.

They need the U.S. placated for power, and their own people placated for stability. Offering the mullahs sanctuary, in this context, makes sense. It quietly but potently advances our goals, and makes them look like they care about their Islamic brethren. Win/win.

In the context of opposing us and a Westernized Iran, offering the mullahs refuge is pointless. If they lose power in Iran, they won't ever be able to return. Sanctuary for them would be symbolic. The new government of Iran would be displeased, if not hostile, to the Saudis, America would be displeased, if not hostile, as well. The Saudi people would have been just as happy with the symbolic gesture of solidarily, so why make foriegn enemies in the process? The Saudi royals may be duplicitous, but they're not stupid.

As I said earlier, this move only makes sense in the first context. I realize this is more complicated than 'They're all Muslim, hence, they're all out to get us', but I think you'll agree that it makes more sense.

[Alas Babylon!]

Very insightful and good analysis!

[Arkinsaw]

The Saudi's actually did us and the Persians a favor on this one, and I wouldn't be suprised if Bush had called them to suggest it. The reason is simple, Sun Tzu pegged it 2,000 years ago.

I agree, this is too soon in the process for an off the cuff offer of sanctuary. By making this offer so soon, before there is any obvious threat, it makes the Iranian leadership appear weak and threatened. Perhaps more weak and threatened than they really are. This looks like a favor to us.

[Arkinsaw]

Do you really believe that the Saudis want a Democratic Iran added to the possibly of a Democratic Iraq and would do anything to further that happening

The Saudis want quiet and stability. The Iranians have threatened and blackmailed them for years. The Khobar Towers attack was a message directed at THEM from Iran and not a message directed at us. Same with the recent bombings.

Saudi has cooperated with Iran since Khobar because they are threatened and fear Iran more than us. But they would not hate to see the Mullahs fall.

[Bringbackthedraft]

OF COURSE THEY'LL LET THEM INTO SAUDI ARABIA. THEY DON'T SPEAK FARSI TO BEGIN WITH, THESE ARE THE ONES THAT CAME IN AND FLOODED IRAN WITH MULLAHS AFTER THE SHAHS OVERTHROW. THE IRANIANS WANT THESE ARAB TROUBLE MAKERS OUT!

[oceanview]

Gee, I would hate to see anything happen to the plane carrying them to Saudi Arabia.

[Publius6961]

That's too bad, I was kinda hoping they'd run to Afghanistan or Iraq.

Actually it is quite a stroke of luck.
Makes it clearer to the IQ-challenged to see the true nature of the Saudis.

There for everyone to see forever, but just now knocking at the consciousness of the stubborn, the blind, the naive.

Saudi Arabia is begging to become the next Afghanistan and Iraq...