Saudi Arabia to send troops to Iraq?

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A key Saudi Arabia leader is organizing a pushback against Iran's plans to agitate Shiite Muslims across Iraq and other Middle Eastern nations, an effort that may even involve introducing Saudi Arabian troops into Iraq to protect the Sunni Arab minority there, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Saudi Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz has become the point man in the efforts to defuse Iran's planning.

Nayef, who is deputy prime minister to Saudi King Abdullah Bin-Abd-al-Aziz Al Saud, is working on strategies to thwart Iran's efforts to agitate Shiite Muslims across the region.

He also has been the Saudi Interior Minister since 1975 and is responsible for maintaining order within the Saudi kingdom. For that reason he is particularly concerned over Iran's recent efforts to agitate the Shiite minority inside the kingdom.

That worry has been aggravated by an ongoing insurgency in neighboring Yemen, where government forces are battling Shiite radicals in a confrontation that could spill over into Saudi Arabia.

Because Iran has begun to excite the growing Shiite populations in the Arab countries, Saudi Arabia has decided to put the tough interior minister in charge of coming up with a plan to counter Iran's growing influence.

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Ironically, it was Nayef who in April 2001 went to Tehran to renew diplomatic relations between the two countries. He also has met with Iranian officials over time to discuss such issues as counter-terrorism, drug-trafficking, money laundering and illegal immigration.

But Nayef recently has been vocal in his criticism of Iran for its financial and military support of Hezbollah, a Shiite faction, and Hamas, of Sunni extraction, even though Hamas has backers in Saudi Arabia and reportedly gets support from it, too.

Recent revelations that a Hezbollah cell was in Egypt to attack tourists there prompted major criticism from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt toward Iran. All three countries are predominantly Sunni and have been very vocal against Iran's recent resurgence.

Nayef's increased role in toughening the Saudi stance against Iran also has come about as a result of Iran's nuclear development program. The Saudis are quite concerned that Iran will use the program to develop a nuclear bomb.

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