Bahrain upring in 1979

nastle

Banned
Encouraged by Khomeinis revolution in neighboring Iran the bahraini shias rise up against their king and a civil war breaks out
How will the Gulf states and KSA react ? full scale war between Iran and Gulf states imminent ?
ALso complicating the issue will be the island disputes with UAE ( lesser and great tumb and abu musa islands)
 
*Gollum-like voice* "What's an upring, precious ?" :p

I'm sure you meant uprising. :)

Not that knowledgeable about post-WWII Middle East history, but could they have actually pulled it off that easily just because of inspiration by the Iran revolution ?
 

nastle

Banned
^ yes indeed uprising
:eek:

bahrain is tiny state and surrounded by sunni shaikhs hell bent on preventing irans regional influence and Iran is gripped by nationalistic ( but also shia religious fervor at the time) deadly combination

I forsee a long and brutal war, with iran attacking gulf state oil targets and maybe even becoming a ally of convenience of the USSR to target western oil interests in the region.Remember though mullahs are very anticommunists but may make good clients for soviet arms like Nasser and gaddhafi.Gaddahi and Assad are already Irans allies
 
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