{"id":16678,"date":"2016-01-19T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16678"},"modified":"2016-01-19T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:32:20","slug":"stocks-slump-after-saudis-threaten-nukes-against-nefarious-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16678","title":{"rendered":"Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against &#8220;Nefarious&#8221; Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-01-19\/stocks-slump-after-saudis-threaten-nukes-against-nefarious-iran\" target=\"_blank\">Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against &#8220;Nefarious&#8221; Iran<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"tabs\">Earlier this month, a black swan landed in the Mid-East when Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr along with 46 other \u201cterrorists.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"node\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Most of those executed were not Shiites but that didn\u2019t matter. Al-Nimr was a key voice among Saudi Arabia\u2019s dissident Shiite minority and his death reverberated across the Shiite community, sparking mass protests from Bahrain to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Al-Nimr was executed on a Saturday. By Sunday evening the Saudi embassy in Tehran was ransacked and burned and Riyadh had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/node\/519730\">cut diplomatic ties<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Iran. The other Gulf monarchies followed suit and by the end of the following week, the stage was set for widespread sectarian strife.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As we wrote in the aftermath of al-Nimr\u2019s execution,\u00a0<strong>the ordeal couldn\u2019t have come at a worse time for the Obama administration<\/strong>. With the countdown to Implementation Day for the nuclear deal under two weeks, the last thing The White House needed was to be thrust into the middle of a dispute between a traditional ally (the Saudis) and a new \u201cfriend\u201d (the Iranians).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Sunni world (not to mention the Israelis) already feared that the lifting of international sanctions against Iran and the attendant cash windfall would strengthen Tehran just as the Ayatollah looks to preserve and expand the so-called Shiite crescent by consolidating his influence in Iraq and bolstering the Assad government in Syria. The money, some critics say, will invariably be channeled to Hezbollah and Iran\u2019s Shiite militias which effectively function as Iraq\u2019s only effective security force. Additionally, the nuclear deal\u2019s opponents wonder if Iran will plow its newfound wealth into the country\u2019s famous ballistic missile program, which is alive and well as demonstrated by the test-firing of the Emad in October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against &#8220;Nefarious&#8221; Iran Earlier this month, a black swan landed in the Mid-East when Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr along with 46 other \u201cterrorists.\u201d Most of those executed were not Shiites but that didn\u2019t matter. Al-Nimr was a key voice among Saudi Arabia\u2019s dissident Shiite minority [&hellip;]<\/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":[77,441,442,1921,11445,2583,2847,683,1246,701,2662,877,4318],"class_list":["post-16678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-black-swan","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-new-york-times","tag-nimr-al-nimr","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-obama-administration","tag-reuters","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-tehran","tag-white-house","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678","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=16678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16679,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678\/revisions\/16679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}