Finishing the Saudi topic, they were to be the 'last domino to fall' in the Arab Spring project, according to Ken Fromm (former top management at Atlantic Richfield), who had many close contacts in the higher echelons of the NWO, especially in the Energy sector and Middle East.
Dying of cancer (Fall of 2010), Fromm laid out the entire Arab Spring plan to his pastor and friend Lindsey Williams, a full 6 months before the Arab Spring officially began. Lindsey went public with the info in late 2010. I remember it vividly, and like so many of his previous pronouncements, what initially seemed so far out, came to pass exactly as Fromm had told him.
Fromm said they (the US/West/NWO) would pick off the countries of the Middle East via destabilization (using Muslim Brotherhood type groups, in the 'color revolution' style of Soros), starting with Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iran (plus others like Yemen, Sudan, Tunisia). Fromm said that Saudi Arabia would be the last domino to fall.
As we know, the Arab Spring project eventually bogged down with Syria, but it appears that the new plan to finish the job will take out both Iran and Saudi Arabia simultaneously by pitting one against the other in a direct major confrontation, with the US possibly playing a key role. Recently Rickards seemed to suggest that it would be the US/Saudis vrs Iran, but the recent falling out between the US and the Saudis may suggest the plan has been modified. Time will tell..