Tuesday, March 8, 2011

BAHRAIN AND THE BATTLE BETWEEN IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110307-bahrain-and-battle-between-iran-and-saudi-arabia

The world’s attention is focused on Libya, which is now in a state of civil war with the winner far from clear. While crucial for the Libyan people and of some significance to the world’s oil markets, in our view, Libya is not the most important event in the Arab world at the moment. The demonstrations in Bahrain are, in my view, far more significant in their implications for the region and potentially for the world. To understand this, we must place it in a strategic context.

the nuclear issue largely has been an Iranian diversion from the more fundamental issue, namely, the regional balance after the departure of the United States. By focusing on the nuclear issue, these other issues appeared subsidiary and have been largely ignored.

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