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Who? Pretty sure all the western engineers who work for ARAMCO are not persecuted for being Christians. Sure, they treat foreign servants and menial workers like crap, but they do that to all of those regardless of religion.

That's ultimately what enabled 9/11 and most other terrorism in the west. They can't do much as long as they stay *there*. Mostly scream into the wind and murderize whatever tourists, humanitarians or oil industry people go into that region without sufficient security. They cause the biggest...

That's nothing a bit of slightly islamophobic immigration policy tightening couldn't fix. Much more realistic than getting the whole economy to work without oil cheaply in fact.

Does SA even have citizen Christians who are *not* converts from Islam? Iran, being a more culturally diverse country, has some such small groups, so that's a separate factor.

A lot of the foreign workers. Most of which go to SA out of their own free will to make money. As we have established, both SA and Iran hate local Christian converts. Nevermind that Christians being loyal to a Shia theocracy makes even less sense than being loyal to a Saudi king.

SA is treating their third world servants like servants regardless of their religion. They don't persecute western skilled workers because that gets western governments angry. As for Iran: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/26/iran-targeting-dual-citizens-foreigners

Which short of outright conquering the place is impossible. Was it before or after MBS was in power, because that has changed a lot in SA, and he is the main driver of recent close relations with USA and Israel. Yes, Iran does it too, just that Iran has competent propaganda and the media don't...

You're 40 years in the past there. Turks, you were right when they were ruled by Kemalists, now they are not, and Muslim Brotherhood is getting a lot of say there. Saudis are Wahabi friendly monarchy, but Iran is officially a Shia theocracy, complete with separate military organizations loyal to...

That's why no one sane sells them the good stuff (tm). You sell them outdated generation stuff and monkey models, stuff that's not worth copying for Russia and China because they already have similar technology. No more than all their neighbors. Meanwhile their more competent neighbors combined...

There is also the "didn't think it through" aspect. If Britain, or even all western countries accepted that argument and didn't sell Saudis any weapons, what would they do? Become pacifist? Of course not, they would go shopping in Russia and China instead. Not only they would be about as good at...

Even then, they would try again, doesn't cost much. The problem is that the accusers have a small but over last decades rising realistic chance of receiving significant material benefits out of this activity. As long as there isn't a true drought of return on such investments of effort, people...

The problem is that hardly anyone is particularly interested in seeing just a mere guarded apology, and especially those most interested in pushing these demands for apology. Most of the parties involved in such pushes want much further going reactions, reparations, favors, concessions, with...

It is quite a bit more complicated than that, but it does contain some sliver of a point. Regarding this issue of recognizing past bad stuff(tm), the world is basically divided into 4 groups in regard to specific events: -The victim -The culprit -The PC world -The rest of the world The victims...