"The Saudi regime is asking Americans to send their sons and daughters to war with Iran in order to protect the Saudi position in the Persian Gulf as if we were mercenaries," said Doug Pando.

"The Americans are acting with Saudi Arabia as if they could cut off oil from Washington, and everyone knows that Riyadh does not have that option. The regime in Saudi Arabia can not survive without oil revenues," he said in an article on National Interest.

The researcher stressed that America's interest requires not to prefer Saudi Arabia or Iran, addressing the administration of US, there is no need for Washington to stand by Riyadh in its conflict with Tehran. The writer recalled what Trump said about Saudi Arabia, describing it as a state linked to terrorists and dealing with Americans as personal guards of the royal family. 

"We wanted an attack on Iran's military targets, not just nuclear sites," the former secretary of defense, Robert Gates, said after meeting with King Abdullah.

Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian state with no political or religious freedom, much less freedom than Iran. Recently, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been seeking to ease some social controls and at the same time arrest anyone who criticizes the regime.

Now Saudi Arabia is less free under the supposed reform of Ibn-Salman. The American writer continues, "While the crown prince claims to fight corruption, he lavishly spent a fortune buying a yacht and a palace at a stage where his country was supposedly looking for cash. He negotiated dozens of businessmen and princes to give up part of their wealth, as if he was splitting the game between his gang."