Saudi Crown Prince calls Iran’s supreme leader ‘new Hitler’ of the Middle East
from truthtroubles.com
"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was the “new Hitler of the Middle East.” (AP/Reuters)
Amid his sweeping cultural reforms and systematic purges from the royal family, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince this week called Iran’s supreme leader the “new Hitler of the Middle East,” comments that are sure to ratchet up the conflict between the two rival Muslim powers.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made the statements about Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an interview with The New York Times that was published Thursday. Salman told The Times that Iran’s efforts to expand “needed to be confronted.”
The prince, 32, who is expected to succeed his father, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, 81, compared Iran and Saudi Arabia’s power struggle in the region to those fighting for Europe in World War II. “But we learned from Europe that appeasement doesn’t work. We don’t want the new Hitler in Iran to repeat what happened in Europe in the Middle East,” Salman told The New York Times." When Iran and Saudi Arabia finally fight it out for regional supremacy, only one can emerge victorious. Nostradamus prophecies make little mention of Arabia; they do describe the Islamic world, led by Iran, invading Europe in the early 21st century.