Saudi Crown Prince: Iran's Supreme Leader 'Makes Hitler Look Good'

[brooklynite]

Source: The Atlantic

This much, at least, can be said for Mohammed bin Salman, the putatively reformist crown prince of Saudi Arabia: He has made all the right enemies. Among those who would celebrate his end are the leaders of ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas, as well as Yemen’s Houthi rebels, and the entire clerical and military leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran. As a bonus, there are members of his own family, the sprawling, sclerotic, self-dealing House of Saud, who would like to see him gone—or at the very least, warehoused at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, where the 32-year-old prince recently imprisoned many of his enemies and cousins during an anti-corruption sweep of the kingdom.

The well-protected Prince Mohammed does not seem particularly worried about mortal threats, however. He was jovial to the point of ebullience when I met him at his brother’s compound outside Washington (his brother, Prince Khalid bin Salman, is the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.). Prince Mohammed (who is known widely by his initials, MbS) seemed eager to download his heterodoxical, contentious views on a number of subjects—on women’s rights (he appears doubtful about the laws that force Saudi women to travel with male relatives); on Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, who is, in the prince’s mind, worse than Hitler; and on Israel. He told me he recognizes the right of the Jewish people to have a nation-state of their own next to a Palestinian state; no Arab leader has ever acknowledged such a right.

Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/mohammed-bin-salman-iran-israel/557036/

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"The enemy of my enemy is....."

[Me.]

1. Says The Man Who Is Having Critics Tortured

[SunSeeker]

2. Pot calling the kettle black.

No surprise Trump likes this hypocrite.

[sfwriter]

3. He's on a PR tour...

I heard some analysis of him on Pod Save the World that has me thinking he and his modernization are a mixed bag. Some reforms he has called for are good, a loosening of the Wahabist reigns, but they are also a distraction as he veers toward a more , and I can't believe I am saying this, more authoritarian monarchy.

My magic eight ball says all sides point toward war. It's what all the hip, modern, dictators do.

[Trust Buster]

4. Strange bed fellows - Israel and Saudi Arabia want to sucker Dotard Don into attacking Iran.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. So it starts..

The Bolton/Trump Bomb Bomb Iran.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. You don't insult the leader of another country unless you ultimately want war or

you want some of the land or wealth of that country.

[duforsure]

7. He sounds like another dictator

Using torture to eliminate opposition , like Putin has done. Are mercenaries paid for by us for trump doing his dirty work for him, and torturing people there?