Saudi Arabia’s ruling Al-Saud dynasty should give up power, Agence France Presse cited a hardline senior Iranian regime mullah saying Friday, warning that the fate of Egypt’s toppled president Hosni Mubarak awaits Saudi King Abdullah.
‘You should give up power and leave it to the people. They will establish a people’s government,’ mullah Ahmad Jannati said in the weekly Muslim prayers at Tehran University.
‘It is better for the Al-Saud to awaken. The fate of the Egyptian pharaoh (Hosni Mubarak) and that of the (fallen) strongmen in Libya and Tunisia, ultimately, awaits the Saudi pharaoh (King Abdullah)… You should be careful,’ he said, as worshippers chanted ‘Death to Al-Saud.’
Shiite activists in Arab states of the Gulf are frequently accused of having links with their co-religionists in the Iranian regime.
On Wednesday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal accused Iran of interfering in neighbouring Gulf states.
Tensions have heightened between Tehran and Riyadh following US allegations of an Iranian regime plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington.