Is Iran on good terms with Saudi Arabia?

[Deja Q]

The same answer goes with the question "Will he really attack Iran?" or "Will he reverse offshoring and fix the economic troubles of this country?"

[Blutodog]

1. Attacking Iran

Attacking Iran is a kind of offshoring isn't it?

[Deja Q]

2. Please elaborate.

We have seen, to date, how aggressive action has not helped the economy in terms of prosperity for the people. This isn't World War II.

Of course, if all our tanks and things are increasingly manufactured in countries overseas, one might start to worry about the quality of the goods made... especially if those countries are not entirely friendly with the US. And I doubt all those helicopter crashes were not caused by bad pilots...

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Dude, some folks made out real good!

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Most definitely NOT

The Wahabbi sect (state religion of Saudi Arabia) sees the Shi`a sect as one of the most heretical of heresies. Wahabbis would like nothing more than to scrape all Shi`ites from the face of the planet.

So no, the two theocracies are out to destroy the other; they are not on good terms.

[xchrom]

5. the saudis and the iranian represent competing ideas within islam.

they are not friendly -- but attacking iran would put the saudis in a very difficult position.

due to the fact that they are all muslims -- and the saudis will have to have SOME position favourable to the muslim in the street.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. Hell no! The Shi'ites are an oppressed minority in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi form of Islam preaches that the rulers need to be monarchs, not clerics. The Saudi Royal family lives in absolute TERROR that the Shi'ites, who believe that only clerics can rule a truly devout mulsim country, will take over Saudi Arabia and kick the Saudi Royals out on their royal hinnies.

The Saudis through Papa Bush and the Carlyle Group are using us as their mercenaries to take out all their enemies in the mideast. Note that Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban---their ideologic buddies--are no longer being pursued by the US.

[wordpix2]

7. good question. I believe BushCo doesn't make a ME move without Saudi

royals' approval.

[Warpy]

8. NO. Saudi is Sunni, Iran is Shi'ite

and there's a deep and abiding hatred at the bottom of that one. Pluse Iran is Farsi, a different ethnicity from Arab.

Plus, even the Wahabbis are looking down their long blue noses at the more extreme parts of Iranian law as well as the more liberal parts (like those trial marriages that can last an hour).

However, if Stupid is nuts enough to pick a fight with Iran, we won't be able to count on either Saudi or Pakistan as allies. In fact, we may be seen as a danger worldwide, and we won't win the war that results.