THIS IS HOW Saudi Stopped Netanyahu's WORLD WAR Plan! REAL REASON Why Saudi Did Not ATTACK Iran!

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[00:00:06]There is a bombshell claim not from a whistleblower, not from a leaked cable, from a Saudi prince. One of the most powerful, most connected intelligence minds in the Arab world. And what he has written could rewrite the story of this entire Iran war.

[00:00:27]Prince Turki Al-Faisal, former chief of Saudi intelligence for over two decades, son of King Faisal, and a man who has navigated the shadows of Middle Eastern power politics a longer than most leaders have been in office, sat down and wrote something extraordinary.

[00:00:47]>> [music] >> He said in plain language that Israel had a plan, a plan to drag Saudi Arabia into a war with Iran. And he said Saudi Arabia saw it coming and refused.

[00:01:01]Hello and welcome. [music] I am Nikita Kapoor and you are watching Decode. And in this episode, we decode Israel's plan and how Saudi Arabia just exposed it.

[00:01:15]We have spent months covering this war, viewers. The US Israeli strikes on Iran that began in late February, the Iranian retaliation, the Strait of Hormuz, the ceasefire that is barely holding, the Hormuz standoff that nearly broke it again. We have covered the missile exchanges, the oil pipeline attacks, the politics, the drone strikes on Gulf states. But here is what we may have missed.

[00:01:43]Behind all of it, behind the fire and the fog, there was apparently a second game being played. A game involving Saudi Arabia, a game Israel was running reportedly, and a game that if it had worked would have turned this regional war into something far, far worse.

[00:02:04]Prince Turki laid it out in Arab News over the weekend. He said that the Gulf kingdom refused to get plunged into what he called an Israeli plan to ignite war between Saudi and Iran.

[00:02:19]Think about what that means.

[00:02:22]A senior Saudi royal, not some opposition figure, a man who ran the kingdom's spy apparatus for 22 years is saying publicly that Israel tried to set a trap and Saudi Arabia did not walk into it.

[00:02:39]So, what was the plan?

[00:02:41]Prince Al Faisal characterized the conflict as a calculated attempt to force Riyadh into a furnace of destruction. The ultimate goal, he argued, was to ensure that Israel could impose its will on the region and remain the only actor left standing while its neighbors lay in ruin.

[00:03:03]A Middle East where every rival, Arab, Persian, Shia, Sunni has been bled dry, bankrupted by this conflict, weakened by war, and Israel untouched, dominant, and calling the shots. This, as per Saudi, was Netanyahu's plan all along. That is the end game Prince Turki is describing, and he's saying Saudi Arabia was supposed to be the instrument.

[00:03:32]The match that lights the fire, the Arab power that attacks Iran and triggers an all-out world war while Israel watches from the sidelines.

[00:03:44]Now, how would it have worked?

[00:03:47]Iran had already hit Saudi Arabia. Let's be clear about that. After the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran on February 28th, Iran retaliated by striking every single Gulf state that hosts US bases, including UAE and Saudi Arabia. Attacks on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline knocked out 700,000 barrels per day of the kingdom's oil capacity, roughly 10% of its current exports. That's a huge number.

[00:04:20]So, here is the moment of maximum pressure.

[00:04:23]Saudi oil is burning. [music] Iranian missiles have struck Saudi soil. The hawks in Riyadh, and there [music] are always hawks, are screaming for retaliation.

[00:04:35]And somewhere, the logic goes, Israel is [music] watching, hoping, waiting for Riyadh to strike back at Tehran. Because if Saudi Arabia retaliates, if the kingdom launches a strike on Iranian facilities, this is no longer a US-Israel war against Iran. This becomes a Sunni-Arab war against a Shia-Persian power.

[00:05:00]This becomes a generational conflict.

[00:05:03]This becomes a war that could consume the entire region for decades.

[00:05:10]Prince Al Faisal wrote that Saudi leadership under Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, MBS, intentionally chose to endure the pains caused by Iranian air strikes, Iranian provocation, rather than take the bait of a full-scale war that would have led to the destruction of Saudi oil facilities [music] and desalination plants all along.

[00:05:36]They chose pain over destruction, [music] restraint over revenge. That is not weakness, viewers. That is cold, strategic calculation.

[00:05:47]And it gets more interesting [music] because it is not just words. Saudi Arabia has bagged its rhetoric with its actions. The kingdom's recent tactical decisions included the denial of US access to Saudi bases and airspace for operations during the conflict, during the war. And just last week, we saw this play out in the real time. Saudi Arabia prohibited the United States of America from using its airspace and bases [music] on its territory to launch operations for its brief bid to reopen the [music] Strait of Hormuz through what Donald Trump called Project Freedom, although it lasted only a day.

[00:06:33]Saudi Arabia is not saying it is abandoning the West. It is not saying it is >> [music] >> joining China's camp or Iran's or Russia's. It is saying we make our own choices. We calculated our own interest.

[00:06:49]We chose survival over alliance loyalty, and we're not ashamed of it. And they're right at their path. Here's the bigger picture. Israel went into this war, or at minimum, shaped conditions [music] for this war with a vision.

[00:07:07]A transformed Middle East, Iran defends, Arab states aligned behind Tel Aviv, or at least paralyzed. And Israel at the center of a new regional order. It hasn't worked out that way. Saudi Arabia did not fight. The Strait of Hormuz is still [music] contested. The ceasefire is fragile. The peace talks keep stalling. And now a senior Saudi prince is writing op-eds publicly accusing Israel of plotting to use the kingdom as cannon fodder.

[00:07:40]In a region defined by fire, Saudi Arabia chose to be water. Not because it couldn't fight, not because it feared Iran, but because it saw a trap, named it, and stepped around it.

[00:07:56]What do you think about it? Tell us in the comment [music] section below.