The Saudis - the history of the ruling dynasty of Saudi Arabia and the oil industry. Saudi Jewish Dynasty - Is It Fake or True

The death on Friday night of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who was considered a supporter of "cosmetic reforms", caused a lot of responses and a small increase, for the first time in a very long time, in oil prices on world markets. However, this death is unlikely to lead to noticeable democratic transformations and changes in both domestic and foreign policy of this ultra-conservative kingdom, which owns more than 20 percent of all oil reserves on Earth and the main Islamic spiritual shrines, revered by more than one billion five hundred million Muslims of the world. ...

King Abdullah ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, who had been in hospital in the past few weeks due to pneumonia, died in the capital of Riyadh at the age of 91 on January 23 at exactly one in the morning local time. Saudi Arabia's state television reported early Friday morning:

- His Highness Salman ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud and all members of the royal family, like all the people, grieve for the Guardian of the two holy places, King Abdullah ibn Abdul-Aziz, who passed away from us at night.

"Guardian of the Two Shrines", that is, the sacred Al-Haram mosques in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, has been the official title of Saudi monarchs since 1986. From now on, he belongs to the new king - as expected, 79-year-old Crown Prince Salman ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, rumored to suffer from dementia, Alzheimer's disease and recently suffered a stroke, ascended the throne.

King Abdullah was buried before sunset on January 23 in accordance with the Sunni ascetic tradition, according to which ostentatious manifestations of grief or sadness are a sin like idolatry. The body of the deceased in a simple white shroud was carried through the prayer crowd on a carpet laid on a stretcher, and then carried by male relatives to a cemetery in Riyadh, where he was buried in an unmarked grave without any ceremony. Official mourning has not been declared in the country and flags have not been lowered at state institutions. There were no spontaneous gatherings on the streets in connection with the death of the monarch. Government offices closed Friday-Saturday weekend will reopen on Sunday as usual.

Saudi Arabia, one of the main OPEC members, owns more than 20 percent of all world oil reserves, which, after the news of the death of King Abdullah, began to rise slightly in world trading. In Asian trading, the price of WTI crude oil rose by almost two percent - over $ 47 per barrel. The price of Brent crude rose by more than two percent, reaching almost $ 50 per barrel. However, the economists of the International Energy Agency have already stated that under the new monarch Salman they do not expect any significant changes in the oil policy of Saudi Arabia. Recently, Riyadh has stubbornly refused to yield to pressure from some small oil-producing countries to cut production to stem the fall in prices that have plummeted 50 percent since June last year.

The late King Abdullah received only a formal religious education in his youth. At first he was the mayor of the most sacred city for all Muslims in the world - Mecca. In 1962, Abdullah was named commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard - and remained in that position for nearly 50 years, despite being secretly ridiculed for his severe stuttering. Abdullah officially ascended the throne in 2005, but in fact he ruled since 1996, as his predecessor, King Fahd, was seriously ill. One of his first throne decrees, Abdullah forbade members of the royal family, which numbers about 7 thousand princes and princesses, from using the state treasury. He also canceled the traditional custom of kissing the royal hand, replacing it with a handshake.

After the emergence of al-Qaeda in the late 1990s, after the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, when 15 of 19 aircraft hijackers turned out to be Saudi a kingdom that has always been dominated by an ultra-conservative Salafi ideology, the ruling family came to the conclusion that religious extremism threatened its own power.

- I expect from you and, I repeat, I expect this from everyone - if you know anything about anyone who, in your opinion, deviates from the path of true faith, uses it for their own purposes and promotes extremism, stop immediately these people and bring them personally to me! - stated king abdullah in 2004.

During his reign, Saudi society saw a marked rift between fundamentalists and supporters of modernization, inspired by the examples of some neighboring Arab states. The "Arab Spring", no less than Islamic radicalism, questioned the authority of the Saudi royal family and the monarchy, which has always claimed to be the "guarantor of stability" in the entire Near and Middle East. After the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the Saudis accused Western countries led by the United States of violating written and unwritten "allied commitments." However, the emergence of a new global threat in the region, the radical Islamic State group, forced Riyadh to re-engage with the West and lead a coalition of Arab countries opposing extremists. Nevertheless, Abdullah, despite numerous mutual assurances of strategic friendship between Saudi Arabia and Washington, never once allowed the United States to use his kingdom's land, "sacred" to all Muslims, as a base for air strikes against targets in Afghanistan or Iraq.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, commenting on the death of the Saudi king, said the United States had lost a friend, a courageous partner in the fight against extreme extremism and an influential supporter of the Middle East peace process. In the coming days, US Vice President Joe Biden will arrive in Riyadh to express Washington's condolences to members of the royal family. For the sake of attending Abdullah's funeral, many Muslim monarchs and leaders (mostly Sunnis) thwarted their plans - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and King Abdullah of Jordan left the economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, and Turkish President Recep Erdogan interrupted a large trip to East Africa.

Shiite Iran, the main rival of Saudi Arabia in the Islamic world, also expressed its condolences. On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif will fly to the Saudi capital - although relations between the two states are now extremely tense. In 2009, among the classified documents disclosed by Wikileaks was a diplomatic cable in which US diplomats quoted the late King Abdullah advising Washington to "cut off the snake's head as soon as possible," that is, attack Iran.

Davos-based former President of Israel Shimon Peres Noting the merits of the deceased in the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, recalls the plan proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002 and approved by the League of Arab States - it provided for the recognition of Israel's right to exist in exchange for its withdrawal from all territories seized since 1967 :

- The death of His Majesty the Saudi King Abdullah is a great loss for the entire region and a blow to the peace process in the Middle East. He was an experienced leader and a wise monarch. And he found the courage, in very difficult times, to take the initiative and propose his peace plan. I cannot say that we were ready to accept all the points of this plan, but the very spirit of his message, the strength, will and wisdom shown by him made a great impression on all of us.

According to Forbes magazine, the Keeper of two shrines, Abdullah ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the father of more than 30 children and the spouse of dozens of wives (with whom he often divorced so as not to break the rules and not have more than four spouses at the same time), before his death was one of the richest people in the world, with a personal fortune of more than $ 20 billion. Towards the end of his life, the king became, according to his entourage, a supporter of "moderate reforms", including partial empowerment of women and the weakening of state regulation in the economy. After negotiations with the leaders of the clergy in 2013, Abdullah, for the first time in the country's history, appointed 30 women members of the 150-seat Shura Council, which plays the role of an advisory quasi-parliament under the Saudi monarch, which he personally told his subjects:

- Since we are not going to isolate the role of women in any aspect of the life of Saudi society, within the framework of Sharia regulations and having previously agreed with the Council of Supreme Clergy, all members of which welcomed and supported our proposal, we made a number of decisions in this direction. The first of them is that from now on women will participate in the work of the Shura Council.

But no noticeable democratic transformations have taken place in Saudi Arabia under the rule of King Abdullah. In 2012, the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch called Saudi Arabia a "kingdom of repression", where the death penalty, extrajudicial arrests and torture of detainees continue to be applied, there are no political parties, civil society, independent media, freedom of speech and assembly, the rights of foreign workers are violated and religious minorities.

In recent weeks, Saudi Arabia has come under fire from around the world for the heinous sentencing of local writer, blogger and activist Raif Badawi. Previously, he was detained several times and accused of apostasy (for which the kingdom provides only one sentence - the death penalty), but acquitted. In 2012, Raif Badawi, who wrote that Islamic universities in Saudi Arabia had become a "den of dense terrorists", was arrested and in 2013 found guilty of "insulting Islam, ridiculing religious leaders, undermining security, promoting liberal ideas and going beyond obedience."

Raif Badawi was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes. In 2014, he was re-sentenced to 10 years in prison, a million reais fine (more than $ 260,000) and 1,000 strikes over 20 weeks, 50 strikes every Friday. On January 9, 2015, in the square in front of a mosque in Jeddah, in the presence of several hundred witnesses, he was hit for the first 50 blows, after which the flogging was postponed indefinitely as prescribed by a doctor "in accordance with Islamic regulations." Amnesty International, which is fighting to free Badawi and overturn the sentence, called "prohibitively brutal and unjustifiable even in Saudi Arabia, where state repression is commonplace", recognized the Saudi blogger as a "prisoner of conscience."

Excerpt from Saudhouse.com, researched and provided by: Muhammad Saher, killed by order of the Saudi regime for the following research:

1. Do members of the Saudi family belong to the Anza bin Waiel tribe, as they claim?

2. Is Islam their real religion?

3. Are they of Arab origin?

The following facts call into question all the claims of the Saudi family and refute all the false claims made by the hypocrites who sold themselves to this family and distorted the real history of the Saudi family; I mean the journalists and historians who, due to the large funding, have a forged and altered genealogy of this family, and that supposedly our greatest Prophet Muhammad (DBAR) said that the Saudis are evidence of the power of Allah on Earth. And it is quite clear that this flattery is intended to justify that crime and autocracy of the Saudis and that it provides guarantees of stability to their rule and is the basis of their oppressive regime. which is a dictatorship of an extreme form and completely compromises our great religion of Islam.

The very concept of monarchy is unacceptable in our religion, Islam, in the Holy Quran, because it concludes power in one person and in the members of his family, suppressing the people and drowning out the voices of any "opposition" opposing royal despotism and dictatorial rules. And the kings are condemned in the following ayat of the Holy Quran: “Kings, entering a (foreign) country, destroy and ruin it, and the noblest of its inhabitants are deprived of respect and honor, - this is what (all) kings do” (Surah an-Naml, 27 Meccan , ayat 34. Koran. Translation of Meanings and commentaries. Imam Valery Porokhov).

Despite this, the Saudi family ignore the Quranic verses and falsely claim that they are the strictest adherents of the Holy Quran: under their strict supervision, radio and television broadcasts are broadcast, using the Quranic verses to protect their order. At the same time, the publication of other ayats in the press is strictly prohibited, because printing and reading them may affect their throne!

Who are the Saudis? Where are they from? What is their ultimate goal?

Ibn Saud's family members know full well that Muslims around the world know their Jewish origins. Muslims are aware of all their bloody deeds in the past and ruthless, despotic cruelty in the present. Currently, they are trying in every possible way to hide their Jewish origin and, hiding behind the religion of Islam, begin to invent their genealogy, trying to bring it to our most precious Prophet Muhammad (DBAR)

They have completely forgotten or in every possible way ignore the fact that Islam has never attached importance to genealogy or the "Family Tree"; here respect and honor are given to all people, without exception, if their actions comply with the principles proclaimed in the following verse of the Holy Quran: “O people! We created you from (a couple): husband and wife, and created (family) clans and (different) nations out of you, so that you could know each other. After all, before Allah, the most honored is the one who will become the righteous of all of you. Indeed, Allah is all-knowing and knows about everything and everyone! " (surah al-Hujurat, 49, Medina, ayat 13).

Anyone who is unjust and greedy cannot be close to our Prophet Muhammad (DBAR), even if he is a close relative to him. Bilyal, an Abyssinian slave who was a true Muslim, has much more respect in Islam than the pagan Abu Lahab, who was a blood relative (uncle) of our Prophet (DBAR). There is no preference for people in Islam. Allah gives the degrees of comparison in Islam according to the piety of a person, not his origin or belonging to any dynasty.

Who is the real founder of the Saudi dynasty?

In 851 AH, a group of people from the al-Masalikh clan, who are a clan of the Anza tribe, equip a caravan to buy grain (wheat) and other food products from Iraq and transport them to Najd. The leader of the caravan was a man named Sahmi bin Haslul. The caravan arrived in Basra, where the caravan men went to a grain merchant, a Jew named Mordahai bin Ibrahim bin Moshe. During the negotiations, the Jew asked them: "Where are you from?" They replied: "From the Anza tribe of the al-Masaleh clan." Hearing this, the Jew began to hotly squeeze each of the newcomers, saying that he was also from the al-Masaleh clan, but that he lived in Basra because of a quarrel between his father and some members of the Anza tribe.
After he told the story he had invented, he ordered his servants to load the camels with much larger quantities of food; this act seemed so generous that the representatives of the al-Masaleh clan were very surprised and they were overwhelmed with pride in their relative, who managed to become a successful trader in Iraq; they believed his every word and agreed with him, because he was a very wealthy grain merchant, what they needed so much (this is how the Jew began to call himself a representative of the Arab clan al-Masaleh)
When the caravan was ready to leave, the Jew asked to take it with him, because he really wants to visit his homeland, Nejd. Hearing his request, the caravan men gladly agreed to take him with them.
Thus, the Jew secretly reached Najd. In Najd, through his supporters, whom he passed off as his relatives, he began to diligently propagandize himself. But, unexpectedly, he faced opposition from the supporters of the Muslim preacher of the area al-Qasim Sheikh Salih Salman Abdullah at-Tamimi. A Jew (the true ancestor of the ibn Saud family) preached in the territories of Najd, Yemen and Hejaz, going from al-Qasim to al-Isha, on the way to al-Katif, he changed his name from Mordahai to Marwan bin Diriya and began to invent stories about our shield Prophet Muhammad (DBAR), that he was taken as a trophy from an Arab pagan during the battle of Uhud between Arab pagans and Muslims. He said that "this shield was sold by an Arab pagan to the Jewish tribe Banu Kunayka, who kept it as a treasure." Gradually, by telling the Bedouins such stories, he increased the authority of the Jewish tribes, as very influential. He decided to settle permanently in the town of Diriya in the area of ​​al-Katif, which he considered as the basis, a springboard for the creation of a Jewish state in Arabia.
To achieve such ambitious plans, he began to closely approach the Bedouins and in the end he declared himself their ruler!
At the same time, the Azhaman tribe, in alliance with the Banu Khalid tribe, realizing its essence and the fact that the insidious plan drawn up by this Jew was beginning to yield results, they decided to destroy him. They attacked his city and captured it, but they could not capture a Jew who was hiding from enemies ..
This Jewish ancestor of the Saudi dynasty, Mordahai, hid in a farm that at that time was called al-Malibed-Usaybabliz al-Arida, the current name of this area is ar-Riyad

He asked for refuge from the owner of this land. The host was a very hospitable man and allowed the Jew to stay. Less than a month later, the Jew killed all the family members of the owner of the farm, hiding the traces of his crimes and showing as if the thieves who had penetrated here had destroyed the family. Then he announced that he had bought these lands before the death of the former owner and remained to live there. He renamed the area, giving it the name ad-Diriya, as well as the area that he had lost.
This Jewish ancestor (Mordahai) of the Ibn Saud dynasty built a seating court called "Madafa" on the lands of his victims and gathered around him a group of his henchmen, the most hypocritical people, who began to insist that he was a prominent Arab leader. The Jew himself began to weave conspiracies against Sheikh Salih Salman Abdullah at-Tamimi, his true enemy, who was later killed in a mosque in the city of al-Zalafi.
After that, he felt safe and made ad-Diriyah his permanent place of residence. He had a lot of wives who gave him a huge number of children. He gave all his children Arabic names.

Since that time, the number of his descendants has increased, which allowed the creation of a large clan of Saudis, following his path, controlling the Arab tribes and clans. They ruthlessly took away agricultural land, and physically eliminated the recalcitrant. They used all kinds of deception, deceit to achieve their goals, they offered their women, money in order to attract as many people as possible to their side. They were especially zealous with historians and writers in order to forever obscure their Jewish origin and associate it with the original Arab tribes of Rabia, Anza and al-Masaleh.
One of the most famous hypocrites of our time - Muhammad Amin at-Tamimi - Director of the modern Library of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia compiled a genealogical tree for the Jewish Saudi family and linked them with the Greatest Prophet Muhammad (DBAR). For this fictional work, he received a reward of 35 thousand Egyptian pounds from the KSA ambassador to Cairo, Egypt, in 1362 AH - 1943. The ambassador's name is Ibrahim al-Fadel.
As mentioned above, the Jewish ancestor of the Saudis (Mordahai) practiced polygamy, having married a huge number of Arab women and, as a result, had a large number of children; his descendants are now repeating the actions of their ancestor, exactly increasing their power - taking in quantity.
One of the sons of Mordahai, whose name was al-Marakan, had an Arabicized form of the Hebrew name Makren, the eldest son was called Muhammad, and the other was called Saud, whose name now bears the Saudi dynasty.
The descendants of Saud (the Saudi dynasty) began to kill prominent Arab figures, under the pretext that they had abandoned Islam, violated the Koranic precepts, and thereby aroused the anger of the Saudis.
In the Book of History of the Saudi Dynasty, 98-101 pages, their family historian claims that the Saudis considered all the inhabitants of Najd apostates, so they were allowed to shed their blood, seize property, and the Saudis could turn their women into concubines as captives.

Muslims who do not share the views of the Saudi ideologue - Muhammad ibn Abdulvahabhab ( also has Jewish roots from Turkey) were subject to complete destruction. Under the cover of this, the Saudis killed men, stabbed children, ripped open the womb of pregnant women, raped, robbed and slaughtered entire villages. And they took the teachings of the "Wahhabis" sect as the basis of their cruel program, which allowed them to destroy dissidents.

This disgusting Jewish dynasty patronizes the Wahhabis sect in every possible way, who allow violence in cities and villages under the cover of Islam. This Jewish dynasty has been doing lawlessness since 1163 Hijri, since they named the Arabian Peninsula after themselves (Saudi Arabia) and consider the entire region their property, and its population are servants and slaves of the dynasty who should work for the benefit of their owners (dynasty Sauditov).

They have completely appropriated natural resources and consider them their own. If someone asks questions that are inconvenient for the dynasty or starts protesting against the despotism of the Jewish dynasty, they publicly cut off his head in the square. The Saudi princess once visited Florida, USA with her courtiers, she rented 90 suites at the Grand Hotel for a total cost of about US $ 1 million per day. Can the subjects ask what this extravagant trick is? If anyone asks a similar question, then he will immediately be overtaken by the punishment of the Saudi sword in the execution square !!!

Witnesses of Jewish ancestry of the Saudi dynasty

In the 1960s, South al-Arab radio station in Cairo, Egypt and the Yemeni radio station in Sana'a confirmed the Jewish origins of the Saudi dynasty.

King Faisal al-Saud at the time could not deny his family's close relationship with the Jews when he stated in an interview with the Washington Post on September 17, 1969: “ We, the Saudi dynasty, are relatives (cousins) of the Jews: we do not share the point of view of Arabs or Muslims in general on the Jewish question ... we must live in peace and harmony. Our country (Arabia) is the ancestral home of the first Jew and it was from here that they spread throughout the world. " This was the statement of King Faisal al-Saud bin Abdel Aziz !!!

Hafez Wahbi, a Saudi legal adviser, mentioned in his book titled "The Arabian Peninsula" that King Abdul Aziz al-Saud, who died in 1953, said: " Our activities (Saudi propaganda) came across the opposition of all Arab tribes. My grandfather, Saud al-Awwal, once imprisoned several sheikhs of the Maziir tribe, and when another group of the same tribe came to intercede for the prisoners, with a request for the release of as Saud al-Awwal ordered his people to cut off the heads of all prisoners, and invited those who came to try the dishes from the boiled meat of his victims, whose severed heads he put on the dishes! The petitioners were very frightened and refused to eat the flesh of their relatives, and because of their refusal to eat, he ordered his people to cut off their heads too."This heinous crime was committed by order of the Saudi ruler against people whose only fault was the condemnation of his cruel methods and extreme despotism.

Hafez Wahbi goes on to say that King Abdul Aziz Al Saud told a bloody story that the sheikhs of the Mazeer tribe who visited his grandfather to intercede for their prominent leader of the time, Faisal Al Darwish, who was imprisoned in the king's prison. He told the story with them in order to prevent them from asking for the release of their leader, otherwise they would suffer the same fate. He killed the sheikh and used his blood as a liquid for ablution before performing a prayer (not prohibited by the doctrine of the Wahhabi sect).

Faisal Darwish's fault was that he criticized King Abdel Aziz al-Saud, when the king signed a document prepared by the British authorities in 1922, in which the British authorities declare the granting of Palestinian lands to Jews, his signature was put at a conference in Al Akira in 1922.

This was and remains the basis of this regime of the Jewish family (Saudi dynasty). The main purpose of which is: plunder of the country's wealth, robbery, falsification, all kinds of atrocities, lawlessness and blasphemy. Everything is done in accordance with their religious convictions - a fictional Wahhabi sect that legalizes all these atrocities and has absolutely nothing to do with Islam.

ZY It all reminds me of something ... " Accepted "Islam - it turned out Wahhabism," adopted "Christianity - it turned out Judeo-Christianity ...(first of all, Protestantism, based on the Old Testament).

Wahhabism was created by the Judeo-Protestant totalitarian group "Golden Calf", or, as it is sometimes called, "secret world government", where Anglo-Saxon dynasties and families, as well as the richest "dynasties" of Jewish finance capital, play the leading roles.

Back in the 70s of the 20th century, the famous Saudi writer and publicist Nasser al-Said wrote the book "The History of the Saudis", which claims about the secret ties of the leaders of the Al Saud with the Jews. After the publication of this book, its author, who was outside Saudi Arabia, was killed in an assassination attempt by assassins hired by the Saudi royal family. In his more than 1,000-page work, Nasser al-Said proved the Jewish origins of this royal dynasty and detailed its mores and moral decay.

The first part of Nasser al-Said's book is devoted to the study of the family tree of the house of the Saudis, where the author proves the origin of this dynasty from the Jews of Hejaz and Medina. As a follow-up to his book, he details the powerful support that the Jews provided for the movement of Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab, which led to the emergence of Wahhabi ideology. Al-Said then analyzes, by period, the actions planned and carried out by Jews for the transfer of religious leadership in Arabia to Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab and the transfer of political leadership of the peninsula to the Saudi dynasty.

The author of the book describes in detail all the crimes against the Arabian tribes committed by the Saudis, and also gives specific facts of their universal extermination. As a justification for his words, he cites historical photographs and paintings, testifying to the veracity of his information. In addition, the author of the book does not ignore the close ties of the royal dynasty of Saudi Arabia with the British that existed in the last century.

After all, the cradle of Wahhabism was the Saudi-controlled part of Arabia, primarily Nejd in the central and eastern part of the peninsula and partly Hejaz on the Red Sea coast. The book "House of the Saudis" says that the grandfather of Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab was a Turkish Jew, Suleiman Karakuzi, who settled in the Hejaz, and the Saudis descend from a Jew from Basra Mordechai bin Ibrahim bin Musa, who converted to Islam (he moved to Arabia around the 9th century ).

In modern history, secret contacts between the Saudis and the founder and first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, began even before the creation of the Jewish state and continued after. Moreover, in creating Israel, Ben-Gurion enjoyed the direct support of the Saudi dynasty. On this score, there were many leaks in the media in the 50-60s, including about secret meetings of Israeli and Saudi leaders at the junction of the borders of the KSA, Israel and Jordan. By the way, the King of Jordan Hussein, and he was the head of the Hashemite dynasty, who ruled Mecca and Medina as sheriffs of the Hejaz and patrons of the two main Islamic shrines (Mecca and Medina) until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when the Hejaz fell under the rule of the Kingdom of Nejd, did not hide the fact the fact that he periodically met with the next prime minister of Israel after Ben Gurion, Golda Meir, either in Aqaba or in Eilat (the royal palace is located 1 km from the Israeli border on the Red Sea) long before the establishment of diplomatic relations between Amman and Tel- Aviv in 1995, that is, when Jordan was formally at war with Israel. So the meetings of the Saudis with the Israelis could well have taken place on "neutral" Jordanian territory, given that the KSA generously funded the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Another coincidence of facts is interesting: Wahhabism arose at the beginning of the 18th century - almost immediately after the Bank of England appeared, based on the money of Jewish slave traders from the Netherlands, English pirates and the English nobility - in fact, mixed together until they were completely merged into one whole. At the same time, agent Hamfer had the greatest influence on the emergence of Wahhabism. The reason for this keen interest was a plan to split Islam and weaken Muslim countries by creating and fueling regional conflicts - for the sake of direct access for Judeo-Protestant traders to the Eastern market. It is no coincidence that Wahhabism in Islam is like two drops of water reminiscent of extreme forms of Protestantism. The closeness of Protestantism, with its bias towards "Old Testament values" and "values ​​of Judaism" does not require special evidence (but that Zionism was fueled by the money of the Rothschild family, raised primarily on operations with the participation of the Bank of England, and who became peers of England , you can not remind once again).

Ironically, two of Islam's holiest sites today are ruled by the Saudi clan and Wahhabi theologians, who did much in the 1920s to kick-start the process of creating a Jewish state in Palestine. Therefore, it is not surprising that both Israel and Saudi Arabia are now heavily involved in military intervention on the side of jihadist terrorists (KSA is open, and Israel is hidden) in Syria.

And the secret alliance between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Israel is no secret to anyone who has studied the history of British colonialism. It was the British Empire that waged war with the whole world for almost four hundred years of modern and recent history. Both Russia and the Arabs, including Palestine, on whose territory modern Israel was created, not to mention Africa, fell victim to it. And continental Europe also suffered greatly from the intrigues of London, which pitted its leading countries, mainly Germany, France and Russia, right up to the outbreak of the first and second world wars. As now, the British are setting the whole world, primarily the United States and the EU countries, against Russia and personally its President Vladimir Putin. Moreover, from the point of view of a native British citizen, this is a normal phenomenon and even an achievement of Great Britain.

The relationship between the Israeli Mossad and the General Intelligence Service of the KSA today pursues several main goals:

1. Prevent Iran from becoming a leading sub-regional power in the Near and Middle East; 2. Suppress and weaken the "Muslim Brotherhood" due to their anti-Zionist and anti-Wahhabi sentiment, especially in Egypt and Palestine. After all, Hamas is nothing more than a Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. And both countries support the military regime of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt, who overthrew the president from the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Morsi, elected by the majority of the population of Egypt.

This weekend in Saudi Arabia there were massive detentions of members of the royal family and people associated with it. Among the suspected corruption was Prince Alwaleed, who tried to forge ties with Russia.

Al-walid (Photo: Philippe Wojazer / Reuters)

"We put personal interests above public interests"

On the evening of November 4, the King of Saudi Arabia Salman ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud issued an anti-corruption decree and announced that he intends to completely end abuses in the country's power structures. As the monarch explained, in the highest government circles there were people "who put their personal interests above public interests" in order to illegally enrich themselves.

Shortly thereafter, Al Arabiya TV reported on the mass arrests: 11 members of the Saudi royal family, four current ministers and "dozens" of former ministers were suspected of corruption. Among them are Prince Al-Walid bin Talal bin Abdel Aziz Al Saud and the former head of the Ministry of the National Guard, Prince Mitab bin Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz Al Saud. What exactly the representatives of the Saudi dynasty did is not explained. However, Bloomberg reported that Alwaleed, in particular, was detained at his camp in the desert.

On Monday, November 6, a senior Saudi official said. Billionaire Alwaleed is suspected of money laundering, bribery and extortion from officials. Prince Mitab bin Abdullah is accused of embezzlement, hiring dead souls, transferring government contracts to his own companies, including a $ 10 billion deal for the supply of walkie-talkies and body armor. Former finance minister Ibrahim al-Assaf is accused of embezzling funds to expand the Great Mosque of Mecca. In addition, he is suspected of using his official position and confidential information in the implementation of land transactions. The ex-governor of Riyadh, Prince Turki ibn Abdullah, according to the authorities, also supplied contracts to his own companies, and also committed abuses during the construction of the metro.

Prince vs prince

Against the background of fragmentary data from Saudi Arabia, different versions emerged of what the 81-year-old monarch was pursuing. According to Bloomberg, the arrests only intensified rumors that King Salman is thus clearing the way for his 32-year-old son, Mohammed ibn Salman Al Saud, to the throne. It was his supporter Khaled Ayaf who replaced Mitab as head of the National Guard Ministry. The interlocutors of the agency pointed to the fact that in recent months it was people from the Crown Prince's entourage that held responsible posts, and Mitab had difficulty holding his position.

Mohammed ibn Salman Al-Saud (Photo: Yuri Kochetkov / EPA)

Middle East expert Hani Sabra told Bloomberg that the crown prince's rise in power had previously caused discontent among many influential Saudis. Now that Khaled Ayaf is heading the agency that was considered the stronghold of the clan of the former King Abdullah, it is almost impossible to predict the reaction within the royal family.

Experts were very surprised by the detention of Al-Walid, who has repeatedly expressed his loyalty to both King Salman and his son. For example, in September, a huge portrait of the monarch was displayed on the Alwaleed Kingdom Tower in honor of the national holiday. However, Market Watch indicates that the prince may have been reminded of his relatives. If Alwaleed himself did not claim a leading role in governing the state, then his father Talal bin Abdul Aziz actively opposed the promotion of Prince Mohammed. The sources of the publication associate a quick clean-up within the ruling dynasty with the alleged decision of Salman to retire at the end of this or early next year.

Face to Iran and back to Trump

Alwaleed's arrest has caused surprise among his business partners. According to The New York Times, it was no accident that he was called the Middle Eastern Warren Buffett. Forbes estimates the fortune of Prince Alwaleed at $ 18 billion, which puts him in 45th place in the ranking of the richest people in the world. He owns a 95% stake in Kingdom Holding and is the largest shareholder of Citigroup, one of the international financial conglomerates (over 6% of shares). He also owns shares in such companies as Four Seasons (together with Bill Gates they own 95% of shares), Twitter, 21st Century Fox, Disney. He also owns the George V in Paris and the Plaza in New York.

According to The New York Times, the prince's arrest was made against the backdrop of a growing friendship between Prince Mohammed and American President Donald Trump. Alwaleed, despite the difficult relations between Riyadh and Tehran, several years ago was going to invest in the Iranian economy and abandoned this idea because of the tough position of King Salman. Mohammed, on the other hand, does not contradict Trump in his views on Tehran.

Mohammed Ibn Salman Al Saud and Donald Trump (Photo: Mandel Mgan / EPA)

At the same time, it is worth noting that Trump did not have a relationship with Alwaleed. Even during the election campaign in the United States, businessmen exchanged barbs. The prince named the Republican candidate "

Dynasty of emirs (1720-1932) and kings (since 1932) of Saudi Arabia.

The history of the Saudis is the history of the creation of a unified Arabian state. At the beginning of the 18th century. the population of the Arabian Peninsula - both the Bedouins of the steppes and the sedentary farmers of the oases - split into many tribes. Divided and warring among themselves, they incessantly waged internecine wars over pastures, over herds, over prey, over sources of water. All settled Arabia was a conglomerate of small and smallest principalities. Almost every village and city had its own hereditary ruler. This fragmentation made it easier for foreign conquerors to seize the peninsula. Back in the 16th century. the Turks occupied the Red Sea regions of Arabia: Hejaz, Asir and Yemen. In the XVIII century. the Persians captured the east coast: al-Hasa, Oman and Bahrain. Only inland Arabia (Najd), surrounded by a ring of deserts, remained inaccessible to the invaders. It was in Najd that a new religious teaching arose - Wahhabism - which the Saudis put as the basis for their struggle to collect Arabian lands.

Although technically all Arabs were Muslims and considered themselves Muslims, in fact there were countless local tribal religions in Arabia. Each Arab tribe, each village had its own fetishes, beliefs and rituals. This polyformism was sharply criticized by the founder of the Wahhabi doctrine, the Nedzhin theologian Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who emphasized the unity, transcendence of God, sharply negatively referred to heretical innovations, especially to the widespread cult of saints, as well as to the sacred relics of pre-fishism. places. Formally, he did not create new dogmas, but only sought to restore the religion of Islam among the Arabs in its original Koranic purity. Emir Muhammad ibn Saud and his son Abd al-Aziz I were among the first to accept the teachings of the Wahhabis in 1744. the banner of Wahhabism - they subdued one by one neighboring emirs and brought the Bedouin tribes into submission. By 1786, Wahhabism had won a complete victory in Najd. In place of many small, warring principalities, a relatively large theocratic state was formed, headed by the Saudid dynasty. In 1792, after the death of the founder of Wahhabism, Muhammad ibn al-Wahhab, the Saudis united secular and spiritual power in their hands. Their next step was the spread of Wahhabism to the entire peninsula. In 1786, the Saudis made their first foray into the Persian Gulf coast. Then these trips began to be repeated regularly.

The son of Abd al-Aziz, Emir Saud, who since 1788 was considered his official successor and led all military operations, managed to unite virtually the entire Arabian Peninsula and create a strong state. In the southeast, only the Sultan of Oman, who relied on the support of the British, dared to resist him. In the end, the Wahhabis had to retreat from Muscat. In the west of the peninsula, the war was also very stubborn. The rulers of Taif and Asir soon joined Wahhabism, but the Sheriff of Mecca Khalib offered the Saudis fierce resistance. Only in 1803 did they manage to capture Mecca, after which all manifestations of fetishism and idolatry were exterminated here. The Kaaba lost its rich decoration, the graves of the "saints" were destroyed, and the mullahs who persisted in the old faith were executed. In 1804, Emir Saud, who by this time had risen to the head of the Wahhabis (Abd al-Aziz was killed in a mosque during a prayer by an unknown dervish), took possession of Medina. By 1806, he annexed the entire Hejaz to his state. After that, hostilities moved beyond the borders of Arabia - to Syria and Iraq. Here the Wahhabis had to face stubborn resistance from the Shiite population. As a result, they did not manage to hold onto a single significant city. And soon the Wahhabis had to forget about external aggression altogether. In 1811, the ruler of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, opposed them. The Egyptians captured the port of Yanbo, and then began to move deeper into the peninsula. In 1812 they took possession of Medina, and in 1813 - Mecca. Soon the entire Hejaz was conquered. In 1815, Muhammad Ali defeated a 30,000-strong Wahhabite army at Basal. According to the terms of the agreement concluded soon, Emir Abdallah I was forced to recognize himself as a vassal of the Turkish Sultan and renounce the Hejaz. However, the treaty was fragile, and in 1816 the war resumed. In 1818 the Egyptians invaded Najd and after a five-month siege took the stronghold of Wahhabism - Dariya. The city was turned into ruins, and its entire population fled. The captured Emir Abdallah I was beheaded in Istanbul the same year.

However, the Saudis did not stop fighting. In 1821, Abdallah's cousin, the Emir of Turki, stood at the head of the insurgents. He made the fortress of Riyadh his new capital. After several years of war, the emir managed to restore the Saudis' power over Najd, but in May 1834 he was shot dead in a mosque by the mercenaries of Mashari ibn Abd al-Rahman (a representative of another line of Saudis), who captured Riyadh and tried to establish himself in it. Two months later, the son and heir of Turks, Emir Faisal I, recaptured Riyadh with a bold raid, dealt with Mashari and proclaimed himself the head of the Wahhabi state. However, in 1838 he was captured by the Egyptians, who again took possession of Riyadh, al-Hasa and Katif. They transferred the throne to Emir Khalid ibn Saud, the son of the famous Saud II, but as soon as the Egyptians left Arabia in 1840, Khalid was overthrown.

In 1841, Abdallah II, the great-great-grandson of the founder of the House of Saud, became Emir of Najd. He was an active ruler, but excessively cruel. The Shammar chronicler Dari ibn Rashid wrote of him as a brave man, "who, however, shed much blood and killed many devout people; he was hated, while Faisal was loved." When the latter managed to free himself from Egyptian captivity in 1843, he was supported by many local rulers, and above all by the emir of Khalil Abdallah ibn Ali ar-Rashid. Relying on his help, Faisal overthrew Abdallah II (he was captured and died in prison, possibly from poison) and restored the Wahhabi state. However, he was already far from the former power - the borders of the Saudi emirate did not actually go beyond the borders of Najd. After Faisal's death in December 1865, his eldest son Abdallah III became emir. He was a brave, energetic and at the same time strict ruler, who enjoyed the support of the inhabitants of cities and oases. Soon, his younger brother Saud III, a generous man who knew how to win the love of nomads, rebelled against him. In 1870, Saud defeated Abdallah's troops at Jude, and in 1871 captured Riyadh. Abdallah fled. The Saud Bedouins plundered the city without mercy. The war continued later, causing dire damage to the inhabitants of Najd. One of the historians of this era, Ibn Sina, wrote: “The shackles of power were loosened, unrest increased, hunger and high prices worsened the situation, people ate the meat of fallen donkeys, many died of hunger. People were doomed to hunger, death, misfortune, robbery, murder, decay ". In January 1875 Saud III died (either from smallpox, or from poison). Power for a short time was seized by the youngest son of Faisal I, Abd al-Rahman. In 1876 he handed it over to the returning Abdallah III. By this time, only Riyadh and the surrounding area remained under the control of the Saudis. “The city of Riyadh with its environs is all that remains of the Wahhabi possessions,” wrote the English traveler C. Doughty. “Has it become a small and weak principality? the guest hall will be abandoned, the servants of Ibn Saud (Abdallah III) are leaving his fading star ... None of the Bedouins obey the Wahhabis? " But their neighbors, the emirs of Jebel Shammar from the Alrashidid clan, have become stronger. In 1887, Muhammad ibn Rashid captured Riyadh and incorporated it into his state. The Saudis had to be content with the role of governors of the Alrashidids in Riyadh. In 1884-1889. such governor was considered Abdallah III, in 1889-1891. - his younger brother Abd ar-Rahman, and in 1891-1902. (after the unsuccessful uprising of the Wahhabis, which ended with the flight of Abd al-Rahman to Kuwait) - the third of the sons of Faisal I, Muhammad ibn Faisal al-Mutawvi. This latter did not enjoy any real power and devoted himself entirely to the cultivation of flowers.

Abd al-Rahman's son, Abd al-Aziz II, had to recreate the Wahhabi state of the Saudis practically from scratch. His half-century reign became a whole epoch in the history of Arabia. Starting as a homeless exile, a landless emir, he ended up as the absolute monarch of a large state that united most of the Arabian Peninsula within its borders and soon became one of the world's largest oil exporters. The billions of petrodollars that poured into impoverished Arabia after World War II completely changed the face of this country. Before anyone else, the heady influence of easy money was felt by the princes of the ruling dynasty. Many members of the Saudis clan in 1940-1950. visited abroad and got acquainted with the conditions of European life. Returning to their homeland, they began to spend huge sums on unheard of luxury. Saudi Arabia has gilded Cadillacs and palaces with luxurious furnishings, central air conditioning, gardens, swimming pools and tennis courts. Colossal funds were spent on harems, on toilets and jewelry of wives and concubines, on the maintenance of slaves, servants, chauffeurs, bodyguards and simply hangers-on. The corruption of the royal court and the bureaucracy began to take monstrous proportions.

After the death of Abd al-Aziz II, his eldest son Saud IV became king, and the next oldest son Faisal was declared the crown prince. Their mothers were different and all their lives there was a rivalry between the brothers. They were very different in character. Saud, who possessed neither the authority nor the strength of the personality of Abd al-Aziz, shared all his shortcomings to such an extent that he seemed to be a caricature of his father. He squandered the wealth that fell to his lot like a real oriental despot. So, the king built himself 25 palaces (only one of them - "Nasyriya" cost several tens of millions of dollars), kept a large harem, a yard of five thousand people, littered with money and sincerely believed that the country's income was his property (despite the fact that what most of his subjects continued to live in squalid poverty). But this state of affairs could not last long. The country quickly emerged from international isolation, new trends and new ideas began to penetrate even the most backward Bedouin tribes. Since the early 1950s. in Saudi Arabia, the opposition movement began to expand. This caused the Saudis to worry. But the Egyptian and Iraqi revolutions made a particularly strong impression on the ruling elite. Fearing a coup, the most sane representatives of the Family began to realize the need for reforms. Since such reforms were impossible under Saud, they had to resort to a palace coup. In March 1958, a group of princes led by Fahd ibn Abu al-Aziz delivered an ultimatum to the king, demanding that power be transferred to Faisal, the treasury should be protected from embezzlement, the most odious advisers should be removed and the brothers of Saud equalize rights with his sons. The king relented, and on March 31, 1958, Faisal was appointed prime minister. In June, he adopted a financial stabilization program proposed by the International Monetary Fund. It provided for cutting government spending to the level of income, reforming the currency system, and restricting food imports. The construction of new royal palaces was stopped. All this made it possible by 1960 to improve the economic situation of the country. In the same year, Saud dismissed Faisal and took over the cabinet himself. But in 1962, after his health deteriorated sharply, Saud had to reinstate his brother as head of the cabinet, and then declare him regent of the kingdom.

Meanwhile, the 1962 Yemeni revolution once again reminded of the need for social reforms. All elements of the situation that led to the revolutionary explosion in the neighboring country existed in Saudi Arabia. It was necessary to mitigate the social contradictions in the kingdom, and Faisal came to the conclusion that for this the government should more actively intervene in the economic life of the country. The budget provided for a significant increase in funding for education and health care. At the same time, repressions against dissidents intensified. At the beginning of 1963, the main center of the opposition, the National Liberation Front, was destroyed, many of whose leaders ended up in prison. All these measures brought popularity and support to the regent in the society. When King Saud returned to Saudi Arabia in 1964 after a long treatment, it turned out that all the levers of power were already in the hands of Faisal, and his people were in all key posts. The National Guard was also on his side. Nevertheless, Saud again tried to dismiss Faisal. The consequence of this was a new "family" palace coup. In March 1964, 68 Saudi princes demanded from the king to transfer all power to his brother. Saud had to comply. On November 4, 1964, he abdicated the throne and left the country in January 1965.

Having become king, Faisal began to carry out reforms that he had long conceived. Business activity has noticeably revived in Saudi Arabia. The state began to allocate significant funds for urban construction, landscaping, electrification, and utilities. The industrial development of the country was taken up by a state-owned company. An oil refinery in Jeddah was purchased and reconstructed. The construction of chemical plants, roads and airports began. The main centers of the country were connected by an automatic telephone connection. During this time, the world economy was experiencing an oil boom. Oil revenues have multiplied tenfold. The enormous funds that ended up in the hands of the king allowed him literally in ten years to completely change the face of his country and make Saudi Arabia one of the richest and most prosperous states on the planet. Social tension gradually eased, the power of the ruling dynasty strengthened. Faisal's successors continued his policies.

Currently, the king of Saudi Arabia is the younger brother of Faisal II - Fahd. (It is known that in his youth Fahd was a big sybarite. He visited the nightclubs of Beirut so often that he knew all the belly dancers by their names, and in the Monte Carlo casino he lost several million dollars in one weekend. legends. These liberties did not please the older family members. In 1953, the elder brother and future king Faisal, known for his asceticism and piety, called Fahd home and gave him a harsh "reprimand." First he held the post of Minister of Education, then Minister of Internal Affairs. In 1975, the ascended king Khaled declared Fahd his heir. Fahd ruled the country in his place.) Fahd himself was actively involved in government affairs for twenty years. In 1996, due to a serious illness, he was forced to retire and transferred the authority to govern the country to his younger brother, Crown Prince Abdallah.

As already mentioned, the basis of the economic well-being and prosperity of Saudi Arabia is the income from the sale of oil. (The dynamics of growth of these incomes are illustrated by the following figures: if in 1943 the kingdom received only 2 million dollars of net profit from the sale of "black gold", then in 1953 this figure increased to 170 million, in 1963 - to 455 million, in 1973 - up to 4 billion 330 million, and in the "stellar" for Saudi Arabia in 1980, the profit amounted to 118 billion dollars!) Saudi Arabia is the largest foreign contributor to the United States). Significant sums are spent annually on infrastructure and social programs. The petrodollars were used to build first-class roads, ports and beautiful cities in the desert. Saudi Arabia has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, and healthcare is free for all of the kingdom's subjects. Education is also free - from kindergartens to universities. The state partially pays for the studies of its citizens abroad. Each Saudi family receives 627 m2 of land free of charge and an interest-free loan of $ 80,000 for 30 years to build a house. The entire population is exempt from paying taxes.

But the ruling clan of the Saudis benefited most from the oil boom.

The intertwining of state power with oil production in Saudi Arabia is so great that virtually all members of the royal family take part in the development of oil policy and receive their share of dividends. All the main posts in the kingdom are members of the Saudis clan (currently it numbers about 5,000 people). The king personally heads the Supreme Council of the national oil company of Saudi Arabia "Saudi Arabian Oil Company" and, accordingly, has the largest income. For example, Fahd's personal state is second only to that of the Sultan of Brunei. He owns at least 12 royal palaces (only one of them - the Al-Yama complex in the Empire style in Riyadh - cost its owner $ 2.5 billion). Fahd owns several jet planes and yachts with solid gold plumbing in the bathrooms.

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Here is a selection of facts about the royal family of Saudi Arabia. By the way, the family is very large, about 25,000 people. However, only 2,000 are at the very top, they own all the oil and all the wealth of the state. Below is a selection of facts about these people.

1) 459 tons of luggage for a 9-day trip

King Salman ibn Abdul-Aziz Al recently traveled to Indonesia for 9 days. He took 459 tons of luggage with him. He took with him not only a sofa, a suitcase, a travel bag ... but also two Mercedes-Benz s600 limousines, two electric elevators and much more.

2) The king and his death

In 1975, Faisal ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud was king. Under him, oil production increased and wealth appeared. He invested money in the modernization of the country, took care of the population, and turned Saudi Arabia into the leading country in the Muslim world.

However, on March 25, 1975, Faisal was killed by his nephew, Prince Faisal ibn Musaid, who came home after studying in the United States. The prince was found guilty of regicide and his head was cut off (it is curious that the dying king Faisal asked to spare the young man). The guy was beheaded with a gilded sword, and his head on a wooden stake was exposed to people for 15 minutes.

3) Alcohol is prohibited?

Drinking alcohol is prohibited in Saudi Arabia. This is punishable by law. However, people who worked at the parties of the Saudi princes claim that they drank alcohol and used drugs there.

4) What happens to those who know too much

Prince Abdul Aziz ibn Fahd silenced his cousin Sultan ibn Turki and threatened him for wanting to tell the world the whole truth about the royal family. He wanted to tell that the royal family is corrupted and rotten from the inside. However, they have a lot of money and opportunities. Those who talk a lot usually don't live here for long. Sultan ibn Turki is silent. And he lives.

5) How Princess Mishaal was executed

In 1977, 19-year-old Saudi princess Mishaal bint Fahd al Saud, niece of King Khalid, was accused of adultery and shot. Her beloved, the son of the ambassador of the kingdom in Lebanon, was beheaded (the head was chopped off with a saber, it was necessary to inflict five blows). The princess's grandfather himself executed the young people.

6) Cocaine smuggling

In 2004, Prince Nayef ibn Fowaz Al Shalaan wanted to smuggle 2 tons of cocaine from Colombia to Europe in his personal Boeing. He was going to launder the money through his own bank, Kanz Bank.

Nayef was caught red-handed by the French police. However, the al-Saud intervened and ordered France to release the prince. Saudi Arabia threatened to reject important commercial deals with France if refused. The prince was released, he happily walks free, and his accomplices are in prison.

7) Prince Saud ibn Abdulaziz killed his gay lover

Prince Saud ibn Abdul-Aziz ibn Nasir al Saud brutally murdered his gay lover in a London hotel in 2010. Then, in court, he tried to prove that he himself was not gay. Homosexuality in Saudi Arabia is one of the worst crimes and is punishable by death.

The police claim that on that day, February 14 (yes, Valentine's Day), the prince drank champagne, as well as 6 "Sex on the Beach" cocktails. The crime was committed in Great Britain and it was not possible to get away from the court. The prince was sentenced to life in prison, but then exchanged for five Britons.

9) Human trafficking

Once, during a Halloween party (which, by the way, is prohibited here), Prince Faisal Al-Tunayan gathered 150 men and women. At the same time, the men came voluntarily, and the women were brought in for sale.

Those who speak on this topic, members of the royal seven have threatened to crack down.

10) media censorship

Here, for example, they closed access to WikiLeaks in their country. In Saudi Arabia, freedom of speech is absent at the legislative level. The royal controls everything there.

11) unpaid bills and inappropriate behavior

Princess Maha al-Ibrahim once refused to pay $ 1.5 million to a limousine rental company in Geneva. It was not possible to knock out the money. The company simply blacklisted the Saudi family.

12) Princes rob their people in every possible way

According to WikiLeaks, the princes borrow money from banks and do not return it. They also take away land on which businessmen are going to build something and which can be resold with great profit.

Saudi Arabia is one of the most repressive regimes in the world. There are no elections, political parties or parliament. The country belongs to King Salman and his family. They can do whatever they want with complete impunity. In terms of political freedoms, there is only one competitor in the world, this is North Korea.

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