Iran Says House of Saud on Verge of Collapse

For those of you who don't know, Iran and Saudi Arabia don't like each other.  Yes, they are both Muslim nations but Iran is Shi'ite and Saudi is Wahhabi which is a sect of Sunni.  Also the Iranians are Persians and the Saudis are Arabs....so I guess racism is alive and well even in the Middle East!!

I ran across this article on Google News today which quotes an Iranian General saying that the House of Saud might collapse any day now.

What do the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and that guy from the old E.F. Hutton commercial have in common? When they talk, people listen.

According to Iran’s government-run outlet Press TV, IRGC Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said some pretty blunt things about Saudi Arabia early Monday:

A top Iranian commander has lashed out at the Saudi aggression against Yemen, saying Riyadh is on the verge of collapse.

“Today, Saudi Arabia is brazenly and obnoxiously bombarding and massacring a nation, which is seeking the denial of the hegemonic system,” said commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari on Monday.

“Today, Al Saud is teetering on the edge of collapse,” the top commander said.

The remarks by the IRGC chief come as Saudi Arabia keeps pounding neighboring Yemen (emphasis added).

Well, that’s quite a thing to say. And Jafari is not the only one saying it, according to the New York Times’ Tehran correspondent.

To be fair to Iranians, they’re hardly the only ones to make this claim this year — a lot of Western analysts are shorting the House of Saud.

If you read Nassim Taleb and Gregory Treverton in Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia seems like the poster boy for imminent revolution: single-crop economy, centralized authoritarian regime and a suppression of political volatility. Regional expert Juan Cole also wrote in January that the challenges to Saudi absolutism are severe. Both of these arguments are of a piece with Francis Fukuyama’s assertion from a few years ago that “authoritarianism in China is of a far higher quality than in the Middle East,”  which implies that any remaining Arab authoritarians are doomed.

There’s an appealing logic to these claims. It’s not like the Middle East is a beacon of stability at the moment. The House of Saud is dealing with rising Iranian influence in the Shia Crescent, wars in Syria and Yemen, simmering discontent in Bahrain, and the prospect that its principal global ally is about to cut a deal with its enduring rival in the region. Oil prices are higher than they were a few months ago but still a good deal lower than the previous few years.  Oh, and lest we forget, the Saudis just had to deal with a leadership transition.

Here;  http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/27/is-the-house-of-saud-teetering-on-the-edge-of-collapse/

The article goes on to say that in actuality, Iran may be closer to collapse than Saudi....because Iran didn't plan for well for 50% drop in oil prices.

Either way, this is more evidence that the "Kingdom against Kingdom" thing that Jesus told us to watch for is coming to fruition before our very eyes.

And of course we wonder how many kingdoms can come apart in the Middle East before it collapses the whole deck of cards?  How many millions and millions of people can be filled with unrest before they spread that unrest to the entire world?