{"id":3814,"date":"2011-03-15T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonapollovoss.local\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2018-09-21T02:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:07:55","slug":"saudi-arabian-forces-move-into-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2011\/03\/15\/saudi-arabian-forces-move-into-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabian Forces Move Into Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to quell additional Shiite uprisings in Eastern Arabia, the Saudis have moved military forces into Bahrain.\u00a0 This is significant because it has been believed that Iran was taking advantage of the “calls for Democracy” to instigate a Shiite revolution against the Sunni leadership of Bahrain.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bahrain, though very small, sits next to one of the largest oil fields in the world, occupies one of the largest oil export points, and houses large numbers of U.S. naval forces.\u00a0 Iran was trying to covertly surround its hated rival, Saudi Arabia and to establish a geographical base and continuing irritant to the Saudis.\u00a0 In response, Saudi Arabia has sent in military forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This move forces Iran’s hand and likely signals the end to many of the Middle Eastern fires that have been started since late January<\/a>.\u00a0 The reason is that for Iran to continue its campaign it would have to escalate the situation beyond covert to overt.\u00a0 That would likely draw an overwhelming response from the international community, including the United States, Europe, Russia, China and India.\u00a0 The Iranians may have made many geopolitical gains in the last several years (witness their domination of Iraq), but they are not even close to powerful enough to take on every major power in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I will continue to monitor the situation closely, but essentially this is the beginning of the end of the Middle Eastern crises that have engulfed the Persian Gulf and North Africa for the past two months.\u00a0 In all likelihood, this also means that oil prices are going to begin stabilizing.\u00a0 Depending on the increased need for oil in Japan, this may also mark the peak for oil prices in the near term and its likely that prices will begin to fall.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jason<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In order to quell additional Shiite uprisings in Eastern Arabia, the Saudis have moved military forces into Bahrain.\u00a0 This is significant because it has been believed that Iran was taking advantage of the “calls for Democracy” to instigate a Shiite revolution against the Sunni leadership of Bahrain.   Bahrain, though very small, sits next to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}