{"id":15976,"date":"2016-01-04T20:52:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T01:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15976"},"modified":"2016-01-04T20:52:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T01:52:56","slug":"from-baghdad-to-bahrainfrom-beruit-to-tehran-tensions-are-exploding-across-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15976","title":{"rendered":"From Baghdad to Bahrain\u2026From Beruit to Tehran \u2013 Tensions Are Exploding Across the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Baghdad to Bahrain\u2026From Beruit to Tehran \u2013 Tensions Are Exploding Across the Middle East<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Either the rebel prince succeeds in convincing enough people who matter to remove the King, or the King counters and drives the prince out. The former situation is far and away the best option for stability in the Middle East, and would likely allow the Saudi royal lineage to hold on to power for longer. If the second scenario unfolds, current leadership will crack down even harder on dissent and run the state further into the ground. This behavior will ultimately lead to an\u00a0unpredictable and likely violent revolution, and if you think the Middle East is volatile now, you ain\u2019t seen nothing yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As John F. Kennedy accurately noted:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Those who make peaceful revolution\u00a0impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This also applies to Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 From the post:\u00a0Regime Change is Coming \u2013 Saudi Prince Calls for Coup to Remove King<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019ve probably been pretty checked out of\u00a0global\u00a0news over the past severals days.\u00a0It\u2019s time to get checked in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The extremely dangerous developments currently unfolding throughout\u00a0the Middle East cannot be overstated. Indeed, it appears we may be on the verge of all out regional conflict. In order to understand what\u2019s happening and where things might go, let\u2019s review the events of recent days.<\/p>\n

On January 2nd, Saudi officials welcomed the New Year by holding its largest mass execution since 1980. 47 individuals were put to death\u00a0across 12 cities, some by firing squad, others by beheading. While the vast majority (43) were\u00a0Sunni jihadists accused of attacks upon Western compounds and government buildings during the 2003-2006 period, the remaining victims were Shiite dissidents, most notably the revered and prominent cleric\u00a0Nimr al-Nimr.<\/p>\n

The resulting backlash from Beruit to Tehran, from Baghdad to Bahrain, has been nothing short of explosive. Expect this execution to be remembered as\u00a0a major catalyst in the regional chaos to come.<\/p>\n

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From Baghdad to Bahrain\u2026From Beruit to Tehran \u2013 Tensions Are Exploding Across the Middle East Either the rebel prince succeeds in convincing enough people who matter to remove the King, or the King counters and drives the prince out. The former situation is far and away the best option for stability in the Middle East, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,2225,11446,441,442,1239,446,447,522,701,1633,1634,1899,2662],"class_list":["post-15976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-baghdad","tag-bahrain","tag-beruit","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-middle-east","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-shia","tag-shiite","tag-sunni","tag-tehran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15977,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976\/revisions\/15977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}