Bahraini Politician: Bahrain's Revolution to Spark Shiite Uprising in Saudi Arabia http://hamsayeh.net/component/content/article/1-latest-news/609-bahraini-politician-bahrains-revolution-to-spark-shiite-uprising-in-saudi-arabia.html

A prominent Bahraini politician said that the current revolution in his Shiite-majority nation would give rise to a similar uprising among the Shiite minority of Saudi Arabia, who mainly live in oil rich regions of the Arab country."Adjacency of Bahrain's Shiite-majority population to Saudi Arabia's Shiite region of al-Shortiyah, which is just 25km away from the borders with Bahrain, poses a potential threat to the Saudi regime," Representative of the Bahraini Shiites in Iran Abdullah Daqaq said Tuesday.

"Victory of the Bahraini people's uprising would lead to a similar uprising by the Shiites of the al-Shortiyah region that has the richest oil resources in Saudi Arabia," Daqaq underscored.

He further pointed out that the deep and grave impact that such an uprising in Saudi Arabia would leave on the world oil market, which would certainly harm the interests of the western countries, is the root cause of the Saudi occupation of Bahrain and the brutal suppression of the Bahrainis' popular movement by the Al-Khalifa and Al-Saud regimes and the West's support for their crimes.Last week, a prominent Saudi political analyst also said that the Saudi ruling system is highly unpopular among the country's people.Speaking to FNA, Mohammad al-Mos'ari said he believes "any free opinion poll in Saudi Arabia would reveal that at least 70% of the people want the overthrow of the Al-Saud dynasty".