Something is going wrong in Saudi Arabia, which is heading towards collapse in silence without noise.

This is how journalist Matthew Beattie begins his analytical article in the American magazine, "Saudi Arabia under siege: Will the kingdom collapse quietly?".

The writer says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, once seen as the promising young face of Arab monarchies, is reaping the consequences of his foreign policy defeats abroad, grumbling and "disturbing" grudges at home.

He points out that the calamities rolled on bin Salman recently. On Saturday, the Houthis destroyed a column of Saudi military vehicles along the border with Yemen, capturing hundreds of soldiers.

Then came the "mysterious" murder of Major General Abdulaziz al-Fagham, the bodyguard of King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, which rang alarm bells inside the kingdom, according to Matthew Petty.

With the problems on him, the Saudi crown prince may resort to a final maneuver and shift from Washington to Tehran. However, the author sees this as a risky move and has little room for maneuver.

Matthew Beatty, executive vice-president of the Quincy Research Institute, says Trita Parsi says that many Saudis he spoke to raised the possibility that what is happening in their homeland may be the creation of elements within the Saudi government want to embarrass Mohammed bin Salman, who they believe is exposing the Kingdom to the problems of the inevitable.

Parsi, an Iranian-born scholar with Swedish citizenship who lives in the United States, adds that the Saudis may have no trouble realizing that bin Salman is the first obstacle to the kingdom's future.

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Careless policies
Mohammed bin Salman initiated the crown prince with an "ambitious" foreign policy, pushing US President Donald Trump to escalate with Iran, escalating the war in Yemen and imposing a "sudden" blockade on Qatar, but his policies exploded in the face. , To quote the article.

One of the misfortunes of the kingdom on September 14 was an attack that destroyed a desulfurization plant in the eastern Saudi province of Abqaiq, which halted half of its oil exports.

Matthew Beatty describes Saturday's disaster in Riyadh when the Houthis claimed they had killed three Saudi brigades in a cross-border raid near the city of Najran.

It is not possible to ascertain whether the Houthis defeated three Saudi brigades and where the battlefield was.

To reinforce this view, Randa Selim, the founding director of the Middle East Institute's Second Track Dialogues Initiative, reports that some soldiers are reported to have been killed or captured by Pakistani mercenaries hired by Saudi Arabia.

But videos posted by the Houthi group's al-Masirah channel showed pictures of hundreds of soldiers laying their weapons on the ground and surrendering.

Saudi authorities have been silent about the Houthis' allegations, but there are "disturbing" reports leaking out of the country. Once Riyadh announced the killing of Brigadier General Al-Fagham in the city of Jeddah on Sunday following a personal dispute with a friend named Mamdouh Al-Ali, many reports raised doubts about the official version.

Saudi dissident Ghanem al-Dossari was quoted as saying that Mamdouh al-Ali, who Riyadh accuses of shooting al-Fagham Brigade, was part of a team of intelligence agents who had been tracking him in London.

Because the calamities do not come individually, the National Interest magazine in the article we are referring to the huge fire that broke out at the new station of the train in Al-Haramain in Sulaimaniya in Jeddah on Sunday noon.

Trita Parsi says there is speculation that the fire at the $ 7.3bn plant was the work of internal anti-Mohammed bin Salman elements.

In a development, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's office on Monday unveiled a letter he received from Saudi Arabia. The following day, Iraqi officials announced that they were preparing for a direct Saudi-Iranian meeting.

Randa Salim told the National Interest magazine that the Iraqis have long sought a meeting in Baghdad between the Iranians and the Saudis, adding that the parties now show a desire for such a meeting.

The magazine recalled a public meeting between UAE officials and their Iranian counterparts in August, calling it a "major diplomatic breakthrough". The UAE announced its withdrawal from Yemen.

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Randa Saleem said that the UAE's decision to speak out is only a clear message to the Saudis - and to all - that it is time to reconsider its strategy of relying on the Americans to defend them against Iran.

According to Saleem, the Saudis were initially reluctant to adopt the UAE's approach. "It was hard for them to accept the Abu Dhabi decision on Yemen," he said.

Combination of factors
There is a tendency to reconsider the strategy - similar to what the UAE has done - is beginning to seep to the Saudis with confidence that the Trump administration will continue to provide security for them in the event of future attacks.

One year after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi agents in Istanbul, Saudi Arabia is constantly losing friends in Washington, the National Interest article said.

The report's author, Matthew Beattie, said a bipartisan group of US senators had stepped up pressure on Saudi Arabia to stop its war in Yemen.

Randa Selim believes that a combination of unforeseen factors could accelerate or torpedo negotiations with Iran. However, it is certain that Mohammed bin Salman will not be able to rely on the United States to save him if his policies fail.

The writer quotes Trita Parsi as saying that a US "disciplined" military policy in the Middle East and signals that it would not fight a war on behalf of its allies would prompt them to rediscover the benefits of diplomacy.

Parsi believes that Saudi Arabia will not be willing to take diplomacy as an approach to its policy if it thinks America will fight on its behalf.