second national Iran's regime in Saudi Arabia.
have, raised the for the showing of the OF ALL the events which have happened in the Middle East and Southwest Asia in the last turbulent twelve frightened Western imperialism most was the storming of the Mosque in It was because this apparently bizarre „example of infighting between the various branches of Islam was the first sign of open revolt against the despotic royalist rest of the Western Alliance, need the present ruling clique in Saudi Arabia more than any other regime in the entire world. The grovelling way Tory Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington apologised to the Saudis 'Death of a Princess' is just one example of the lengths to which imperialism will go not to offend the House of Saud.
The reason can be summed up in one «courte But the time has gone when the regime in Saudi Arabia could be relied on to do anything the US told them to.
Iranian revolution changed all that. First, it showed that whatever the level of US backing for an unpopular regime it was not immune from being overthrown. Second, the revolution itself has affected popular feeling throughout the Saudi Arabia is not Iran. It is less industrialised and consequently does have the same level of urban poverty which helped fell the Shah. But there have been signs that the Saudi princes are not as free as they once were to act as imperialism's puppets. The events in Iran have caused disturbances in Saudi's Eastern Province. The breakout of internal dissent expressed in the events in Mecca last November was rooted in the same anti-Western feelings Saudi ruling clique. Sheik Zaki Yamani, the oil minister has referred to 'young In turning his regime more coully.
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They are also seen as helping to Turks' in the kingdom who want to halve the amount of oil being produced in the For the survival of the regime some of the young princes feel that Saudi Arabia has to distance itself more from the US.
At the same time the government relies on US backing more than ever. It is this contradiction which means ment has been happy to welcome Iraq in a new partnership to promote Western interests and oppose the Islamic revolucouncils Saudi Arabia and Iraq now tend to speak with one voice. But in seeking a unity of Arab reaction the popular hostility the two regimes are now storing up for themselves may, in the final