{"id":393550,"date":"2019-01-20T21:27:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T20:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-saudi-arabia-faces-bleak-future-analyst\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T21:27:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T20:27:57","slug":"presstv-saudi-arabia-faces-bleak-future-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-saudi-arabia-faces-bleak-future-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Saudi Arabia faces bleak future: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Saudi Arabia would finally face a revolt from the inside as people&#8217;s voices for democracy and freedom start to rattle the shaky and unstable regime that &#8220;corrupt royals&#8221; have built on oil wealth, a political analyst from London says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future of Saudi Arabia looks bleak because it is a complete autocracy ruled by a corrupt royal family which uses the whip and electricity and the sword to suppress all opposition,\u201d said Rodney Shakespeare in an interview with Press TV on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The analyst said the Saudi Arabian government had managed to remain in power through its huge oil income and its economic strength which it uses to satisfy a \u201csufficient proportion of the population\u201d which thinks its interests lie with supporting the corrupt and intolerant government.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare said, however, that at some stage in future, Saudi Arabia is likely to come under high pressure as the modern communication technologies have enabled people to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/20\/586325\/Saudi-Arabia-regime-fall-democracy-war-interview\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia would finally face a revolt from the inside as people&#8217;s voices for democracy and freedom start to rattle the shaky and unstable regime that &#8220;corrupt royals&#8221; have built on oil wealth, a political analyst from London says. \u201cThe future of Saudi Arabia looks bleak because it is a complete autocracy ruled by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}