VIDEO-'House of Saud is a house of cards' http://www.rebelnews.org/opinion/middle-east/820142-house-of-saud-is-a-house-of-cards

Suppression of even the smallest demands of people in Saudi Arabia by the ruling regime reflects how susceptible the al-Saud family is to an easy collapse, says Secretary General of the London-based Islamic Renewal Party.“It [the Saudi regime] is so weak, really, a house of cards but there is no wind to blow it away,” said Mohammad al-Massari in a Press TV interview on Wednesday.“For such a regime, even a smallest demand is a big demand by necessity, because it means that you have rights and you have demands, but the regime looks to you as a subject and an owned slave,” said Massari. The expert on the Saudi affairs further pointed out that Saudi regime's survival hinges on the weakness of its public and the people's inability to express their will.

“The regime has been successful in depriving the public from any tool of political expression and political activity,” he said. “All the classical tools of oppression developed...through history have been used [by the Saudi regime] to subdue the people and remove their power, de-empowerment and that's [been going on] for seventy years,” he added. Massari noted that the regime in Saudi Arabia cannot fend for itself and needs the US military's help to withstand a popular revolt within its borders. 

“[That] it cannot fight wars is very clear, the Gulf War the first and the second...also the Houthi war where they and the Yemeni army failed miserably against a bunch of small tribes in a limited area,” he said. The political observer, however, expressed doubt that the US would step in to help the Saudi Arabia if the regime encounters a revolt.“I don't think the US will get involved in any Arab country or Muslim country anytime soon, especially after the battle of Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Massari. Saudi police detained around 30 activists and bloggers last week over participation in protests in the eastern Province of the country. In Saudi Arabia, protest rallies and any public display of dissent are forbidden and considered illegal. Senior Wahhabi clerics in the kingdom have also censured opposition demonstrations as "un-Islamic."