Iran supreme leader is 'new Hitler' says Saudi crown prince
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seeking to consolidate his power in the slow-moving Kingdom CREDIT: FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP
Saudi Arabia's crown prince has called Iran's supreme leader "the new Hitler of the Middle East" and warned that as in European history, "appeasement doesn't work".
In his first comments since a widespread anti-corruption purge Mohammad bin Salman fired his strongest criticism yet of Saudi Arabia's regional arch-rival.
"We don't want the new Hitler in Iran to repeat what happened in Europe in the Middle East," bin Salman, known by his initials MbS, told The New York Times in an interview published on Thursday.
The 32-year-old prince has positioned himself at the forefront of an economic and social upheaval in Saudi Arabia.
But he has been criticised over the human costs of the intervention he has led in Yemen, seen as a proxy for the country's conflict with Iran.
Oxfam on Saturday claimed that a further eight million people will be without running water due to fuel shortages arising from the Saudi-led blockade on the country's northern ports.
The coalition has given the United Nations permission to resume flights of aid workers to the Houthi-controlled capital, but not to dock ships loaded with wheat and medical supplies, a UN spokesman said.
Recent mass arrests in an anti-corruption drive led by Prince Mohammed, which saw dozens of princes, former officials and media tycoons held in Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton, are largely seen as an attempt to consolidate his power since becoming crown prince two and a half years ago.
Prince Mohamed has also touted his programme of modernisation, which has included curbing the power of Saudi's religious police and preparing to allow women to drive and attend football matches.
He repeated to the New York Times his pledge to tackle the intolerant, puritanical brand of Islam of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi clerics, and return Saudi Islam to the more open orientation that was eclipsed by fundamentalism in 1979, the same year Iran saw its own Islamic revolution.
"We are 'restoring' Islam to its origins — and our biggest tools are the Prophet's practices and [daily life in] Saudi Arabia before 1979," he said. According to many of the records of life during the Prophet Muhammad's time around 570-632 CE, women and men mixed more freely than they do in Saudi Arabia today, and Islam existed alongside Judaism and Christianity.
The promise of a return to a more moderate Islam is coupled with a bid to encourage economic growth, and the kingdom hopes it will help Saudi Arabia's bid to carve out greater influence regionally and internationally.
The speed of Prince Mohammed's reforms may have challenged older generations in the slow-moving kingdom, but are designed to reach out to younger Saudis.
There are, however, concerns about his sweeping corruption crackdown, seen as a purge as he tightens his grip on power. Many see the arrests of dozens of princes as a warning shot to those who may pose a challenge to the future king, and an attempt to silence all but his most loyal associates.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/25/iran-supreme-leader-new-hitler-says-saudi-crown-prince/
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Untrue. Iran has been exposed many many time. I got pull many example.
Here is one
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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I cannot take what looks like a Saudi Arabian propaganda account seriously. Only neutral sources.
AmirPatriot said:
That little kid is speaking in Farsi. Forget about the account for a second and look at the content as those kind of accounts are meant for us not for you. What is Qasim Sulamani doing in Syria and Iraq? If he had the chance to visit Yemen Houthi terrorists he would not spare.
If that account is meant for Saudis, why would you use it as proof for people that aren't Saudis?
Qassem Soleimani (or Haj Qassem as we like to call him) is being a national hero by fighting terrorists in Iranian allies, Iraq and Syria. He is doing so legally, at the request of their governments.
The account posted the video that was circulating all over the news. The account holder is merely a messenger so please don't shot and discuss the content. If you don't like the poster, the video can be found on YT uploaded by countless number of people.
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