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Al-Ula Forebodes End of the Intransigents

Date: 06 January 2021 - 21:59

News ID: ۸۶۳۲۸

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The tirade against the Islamic Republic of Iran was not something unexpected from the official statement released at the end of summit of the 6-nation Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) held in British-created Saudi Arabia.
PGCC was formed some forty years ago during the 8-year war the US had imposed on Iran through Saddam of the repressive Ba’th minority regime of Baghdad, and was intended to act as a "reserve bank” for the Iraqi dictator’s expensive and ambitious aggression that ultimately failed.
It is another story that Saddam turned like a wolf upon the PGCC in 1990, two years after the humiliating end of the American war he was fighting against Iran, and tried to swallow benefactor Kuwait and fire a few missiles at Saudi Arabia.
It goes to the credit of Iran that it not only denounced Saddam’s aggression, but in a magnanimous show of Islamic solidarity sent its experts to douse the oil well set ablaze by the retreating Ba’thist forces.
Unfortunately, this goodwill was never reciprocated in any of the statements released by the PGCC, whether at its foreign ministerial meetings or at the summits, despite the expression of gratitude by member states in their meetings with Iranian officials.
The main reason was the pressure on Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, and Oman by the cultish Wahhabi regime of Riyadh, which for obvious reasons has always been opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
On Wednesday, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman referred to this reality in his press conference in Tehran when commenting on the statement released by the Al-Ula summit, he said: "It is the result of a lack of understanding of the situation in the region and beyond, the Saudi regime’s grudge and its political pressure on the PGCC.
Although Saeed Khatibzadeh welcomed the compromise between the Persian Gulf states to end the Saudi-UAE-Bahraini boycott of Qatar during the presidency of Donald Trump of the US, as admission of defeat by Riyadh which had insisted Doha should break ties with Tehran, he noted:
"The Saudi regime’s regional policy and its destructive approaches vis-à-vis Iran and other countries have destroyed a major part of the neighouring countries’ wealth and turned the region into a depot of weapons supplied by Western companies, which has paved the way for foreigners’ further interference in this sensitive region.”
It is clear that the self-imposed Heir Apparent of Saudi Arabia, the murderous MBS (Mohamed bin Salman), who hosted the PGCC summit in the absence of his ailing and senile father, 85-year King Salman, greatly fears the lack of legitimacy of not only his own position but the survival of Saudi Arabia itself.
The rulers of the other member states may be ruling their underpopulated tiny fiefdoms with some sense of clannish loyalty from the few Bedouin tribes that inhabit their areas, but the case of the cultish regime in Riyadh is entirely different.
The Wahhabis of Najd who were given a vast kingdom by their masters in London in 1932 for their crimes against fellow Arabs and desecration of the holy Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina, feel that they cannot prolong their precarious survival over a plethora of tribes following different schools of jurisprudence, without the blessings of the US, and to do whatever Washington wishes, even if it means surrendering their ill-acquired oil wealth of the predominantly Shi’a Muslim Eastern region.
This explains their animosity towards Iran and their subservience to the newly found Zionist cousins in Israel, who have also begun to dictate the draft of the PGCC communiques.
This dubious game, however, is not likely to last long, try whatever stratagems MBS has in his evil mind, as could be evident from the venue of the latest PGCC summit, which was wisely not attended by the new Sultan of Oman, Haytham bin Tareq.
The historic town of Al-Ula, which is in the usurped Medina Governorate, does not belong to the Saudis.
Moreover it is the region where the ruins of Madaen Saleh are situated – a clear warning to the Wahhabi regime of its fast approaching doom, perhaps similar to the Divine Wrath that struck ancient inhabitants of this area for their disobedience of Divine commandments, persecution of Prophet Saleh, and crimes against humanity.