WashingtonExaminer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia severed all diplomatic ties with Iran Sunday, the Saudi foreign minister announced in a press conference.
The major diplomatic move comes after Iranian protestors stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran Saturday night in response to the execution of 47 people suspected of being terrorists. Among them was the Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, whose death was condemned by the Ayatollah Khamenei.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Iran’s diplomats had 48 hours to get out of the country. MORE
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Rand Paul: Saudi Arabia is a Middle East ‘arsonist’.
This could be really great.
Iran VS Saudi Arabia a match made in pig heaven!
screw iran, but we cut ties with south Africa over apartheid, how come we don’t cut ties with saudi arabia over the fact that they engage in slavery?
South Africa doesn’t have an ocean of oil, duh.
Oil got nuffin ado wif nuffin – foreign policy is always based on morality – nothing else …
That, and there are no communists in Saudi Arabia …
When it comes to international relations, a nation’s “morality” is based primarily on power and wealth, and oil is money. We’ve been trading blood for oil for over a hundred years, and that’s not likely to change any time soon.
The fundament of international relations should be national self-interests – nothing more – nothing less.
Speaking of human rights, the UN all powerful all seeing human rights committee has come up with a plan year after year, decade after decade, to continue watching for human rights. Each year they report on the countries they are watching then continue to watch them. And of course we are paying for it.
correction: each year the UN Human Rights Committee reports the LIST of countries being watched, then resolve to continue watching them.
Agreed. ?
My neighbor is from Saudi Arabia. Hands down the best neighbor I’ve ever had. We pulled up in our moving truck and he came right over wanting to help us all move in. I politely declined because I told him I’d be a bad neighbor to have him move all my stuff inside. We both laughed. He’d never go back to his homeland because he knows he’d be lashed for drinking Bud Light. He knows that’s bull?. Can that be read as bullpoopy too?
If the Saudis and the Iranians went to war, I would hope that they both lose.
Let’s add in some nuclear weapons and see what happens.
What could go wrong?…..