from asia times online........
"Saudi Arabia is already concerned about protests in Bahrain, where Shi'ites are seeking greater rights from the Sunni monarchy. Protests earlier this month in Qatif in Eastern province calling for the release of prisoners being held without trial has unnerved Riyadh. Saudi officials have said the protests were provoked by an unnamed foreign power, which is usually code for "Iran".
Oil as a weapon
Some four months ago, according to Newsweek, Prince Turki al-Faisal, who was previously the head of Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency and ambassador to the United States, told a group of North Atlantic Treaty Organization officers at a military base in Britain that in response to Iran's negative influence in the region, his country could squeeze Iran's economy, which is overwhelmingly dependent on oil revenue"............READ MORE
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