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Arabian Peninsula / Persian Gulf update 6/24/2017...Suicide bomber planning to attack Mecca's Grand Mosque blows himself up

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Suicide bomber planning to attack Mecca’s Grand Mosque blows himself up

Bomber planning to attack Mecca’s Grand Mosque blows himself up

Dissident Figure Blames New Saudi Crown Prince for Mecca Suicide Blast

http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960403001409

A prominent Saudi dissident figure took Mohammed bin Salman, the new crown prince of the country, responsible for the terrorist attack in the holy city of Mecca.

“Foiling the suicide attack in the Grand Mosque was a false-flag operation which was aimed at increasing popular support for bin Salman and covering up the developments related to bin Nayef’s dethroning and its consequences,” Hamza al-Hassan wrote on his webpage on Saturday.

The Saudi security forces claimed that they have foiled a terror plot targeting the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, exchanging gunfire with one of the suspects who blew himself up inside a home on Friday, the interior ministry said.

The ministry described the plot as part of “self-serving schemes managed from abroad”.

Five people, including a woman, were arrested in security operations in Mecca, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news website said, citing interior ministry security spokesman Mansour al-Turki.

Five security force members and six other people were injured, the report said.

Turki said police “foiled the terrorist plan that targeted the security of the Grand Mosque, pilgrims and worshippers”.

Two days before the incident, Saudi King Salman replaced Crown Prince Nayef with his own son, Mohammed bin Salman, the deputy crown prince and defense minister.

According to a royal decree, Mohammed bin Salman, 31, was also named deputy prime minister, and shall maintain his post as defense minister, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Wednesday.

The SPA also confirmed that 31 out of 34 members of Saudi Arabia’s succession committee chose Mohammed bin Salman as the crown prince.

Just days ago, the Saudi king stripped Nayef of his powers overseeing criminal investigations and designated a new public prosecution office to function directly under the king’s authority.

In a similar move back in 2015, the Saudi king had appointed his nephew, then deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef as the heir to the throne after removing his own half-brother Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud from the position.

Under the new decree, King Salman further relieved Mohammed bin Nayef of his duties as the interior minister. He appointed Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef as the new interior minister and Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Salem as deputy interior minister.

Mohammed Bin Salman is already in charge of a vast portfolio as chief of the House of Saud royal court and chairman of the Council for Economic and Development Affairs, which is tasked with overhauling the country’s economy.

The young prince was little known both at home and abroad before Salman became king in January 2015.

However, King Salman has significantly increased the powers of Mohammed, with observers describing the prince as the real power behind his father’s throne.

The power struggle inside the House of Saud came to light earlier this year when the Saudi king began to overhaul the government and offered positions of influence to a number of family members.

In two royal decrees in April, the Saudi king named two of his other sons, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Prince Khaled bin Salman, as state minister for energy affairs and ambassador to the United States, respectively.

Late April, media sources disclosed that Mohammad bin Salman has literally bribed the new US administration by paying $56m to Donald Trump.

According to reports, bin Salman is paying off the US to buy its support for finding a grip over the crown.

“Since Uncle Sam’s satisfaction is the first step for the Saudi princes to get on the crown, paying off Washington seems to be a taken-for-granted fact,” Rami Khalil, a reporter of Naba’ news website affiliated to the Saudi dissidents wrote.

He added that since the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) is like a sword over the head of the al-Saud, they have no way out but to bribe the US, noting that the Yemen quagmire is also another reason for Riyadh to seek Washington’s support.

Also, a prominent Yemeni analyst said earlier this month that the US has been paid several trillion dollars by Saudi Arabia to protect its crown, adding that Riyadh has recently bribed Washington’s support for the Yemen war with $200bln.

“Washington has asked for more money to defend the Saudi regime and Riyadh has recently paid $200bln to the US for the costs of its support for the war in Yemen,” Saleh al-Qarshi told FNA.

“This is apart from the huge amounts of money that Saudi Arabia pays to the US treasury for protecting its crown,” he added.

According to al-Qarshi, former Saudi Intelligence Chief Turki al-Feisal revealed last year that his country has bought the low-profit US treasury bonds to help the US economy.

As the defense minister, Mohammed bin Salman has faced strong international criticism for the bloody military campaign he launched against neighboring Yemen in 2015 amid his rivalry with bin Nayef, the then powerful interior minister.

Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 14,100 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.

The World Health Organization (WHO) in Yemen also announced that more than a thousand Yemenis have died of cholera since April 2017 as Saudi Arabia’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, continues hitting residential areas across Yemen.

Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has drove the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster.

Nearly 3.3 million Yemeni people, including 2.1 million children, are currently suffering from acute malnutrition. The Al-Saud aggression has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s facilities and infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, schools, and factories.

The WHO now classifies Yemen as one of the worst humanitarian emergencies in the world alongside Syria, South Sudan, Nigeria and Iraq.

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http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960403001706

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari underlined that the Saudi government is supporting terrorists and extremists, and said that the Riyadh government will be the ultimate loser of the game it has started.

“Saudis have run a dangerous game and will eventually be its losers,” Jaberi Ansari said on Saturday.

Jaberi Ansari’s remarks came in reaction to the recent remarks made by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir.

The Iranian deputy foreign minister reiterated that the coincidence of Saudi officials’ statements with terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier in June is meaningful.

The Saudi crown prince had claimed they would take war to Iran and the Saudi foreign minister said they needed to punish Iran.

“We have information that shows the Saudis have had relations and contacts with the anti-Islamic-Revolution groups in the region. The game they started will cause big strategic problems for them.”

He underlined that Saudi Arabia has been supporting terrorists and trying to export terrorist ideas, and with its recent actions, Riyadh tried to distract attentions, he said.

In relevant remarks on Monday, Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian underlined the role played by Saudi Arabia in the recent terrorist attacks in Tehran on June 7.

“The recent deadly terror attacks in Tehran were carried out on request of Saudi Arabia’s security and spy services,” Amir Abdollahian said.

He reiterated that the existing documents are proof of the US and Saudi Arabia’s continued support for terrorist groups in the region and the world, and said, “Their strategy and policy is to draw out regional crises in order to carry out their own agendas such as arms sales.”

After the attacks, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that his country had obtained intelligence showing that Saudi Arabia was “actively” propping up terrorist groups along Iranian eastern and western borders.

Riyadh has severed its diplomatic relations with Iran. The Tehran attacks came hot on the heels of specially adversarial comments and threats by high-ranking Saudi authorities.

Last month, Mohammed bin Salman said Saudi Arabia would work to move “the battle” to Iran.

Also, on June 6, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Iran had to be “punished” for what he called “its interference in the region.” The Tehran attacks happened less than a day later.

On June 7, gunmen mounted almost simultaneous assaults on Iran’s Parliament and the Mausoleum of the late Founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini, which killed 18 people and injured 50 more. The ISIL terrorist group claimed responsibility for the assaults. Iran has arrested dozens of terrorists since the Tehran attacks.

Yemen – Resistance forces destroy Saudi military vehicles – 23 June 2017

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Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2017/06/arabian-peninsula-persian-gulf-update_24.html


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