That sensational show of power upended decades of unwritten rules within the secretive
House of Saud and effectively sidelined the crown prince's potential opponents in one sweep.
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian, in a tweet on Friday, referred to the recent execution of 37 Saudi nationals, and underlined that the
House of Saud is in a "very serious" crisis over the lack of legitimacy.
Uncofirmed rumors are swirling around the Saudi ruling family after the surprise return of a senior member of
House of Saud who was reportedly fearing a return to the Kingdom under Mohammed bin Salmans rule.
But for Justin Trudeau, he pulled out all the stops with a complete hissy fit over a rather mild rebuke about the arrest of two Saudi citizens who had the unmitigated gall to suggest all is not perfect with the
House of Saud. The response has been quite breathtaking: The cancellation of all Saudi Arabian Airline flights to Canada, the recall of some 15,000 Saudi university students, and a ban on all new trade agreements.
Majlis-e-Wahdat-eMuslimeen organized the demonstration in which MWM's supporters were raising slogans against
House of Saud, the rulers of Saudi Arabia, for their unpardonable crime that they demolished the sacred shrines and graves of noble figures of Islamic history including Ahl-e-Bayt (AS) and Companions of the Prophet of Islam.
In order to preserve the
House of Saud, their western allies could not give a "monkey's" about any one else as long as billions of pounds was made by killing mostly the innocent.
What the prince failed to acknowledge was that this hard-line Islamic doctrine has been the pivot responsible for the rise to power of the
House of Saud.
House Of Saud: A Family At War BBC2, 9pm FACTUAL The Crown Prince is hoping to reform his country, but what is his attitude to dissenting voices?
House Of Saud: A Family At War BBC2, 9pm Since the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was constituted in 1932, inexhaustible wealth has granted the ruling royal family total power at home and the freedom to act with relative impunity abroad.
For his part, Khamenei has referred to the
House of Saud as an "accursed tree", and Iranian officials have accused the kingdom of spreading terrorism.
The 7th king since his father Abdul-Aziz "Ibn Saud" in 1932 founded the state and headed the third dynasty in the
House of Saud, Salman used to be this dynasty's most experienced diplomat.
The ruling
House of Saud emerged in the 18th century AD in alliance between Emir Muhammad ibn-Saud who ruled the Najd and Shaikh Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab of the Tamim Tribe, a reformer of Sunni Islam who founded a movement now known as Wahhabism.