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Stories        Saudi Monarch Enjoys Turning Table on Tehran
After being on the defensive at the outset of the Arab Spring,
the Saudis, thanks to the Syrian protests, can pay Iran back.
By Amiel Ungar       First Publish: 8/8/2011, 7:57 PM
When the Arab Spring erupted, the so-called "Resistance Front"
of Iran and Syria and Hizbullah had things pretty much their own
way.        The fall of the Mubarak regime in Egypt and the
desire of the ensuing regime to improve relations with Iran was
undoubtedly a major victory for them.         The spread of the
protests to Bahrain and Jordan, both on the threshold of Saudi
Arabia, menaced the key conservative state in the region.
Saudi King Abdullah undoubtedly had a sense of poetic
justice when he went on the Saudi sponsored Al Arabiya
television station to announce the cancellation of all support
for Syria. Now the Saudi royal family can portray itself as
being on the side of the