Iran squares off against Saudi Arabia over Bahrain's annexation

The next middle-east war may not be between Israel and its hostile Arab neighbours, but may instead be a battle between Shiite lead Iran and Sunni ruled Saudi Arabia under the guise of freeing the Shiite majority from the Sunni ruled Kingdom of Bahrain.  However, the real reason Iran would be anxious for a war with the Saudis is to both remove King Abdullah from power, (part of the end-time beliefs of the Iranian Shiites), and to gain control of the two most holy places in Islam, that of Mecca and Medina.

Iran, (Persia in the bible), is prophesied to be a major player in end-time events.  The Prophet Ezekiel foretold of a day, (which we believe is now very near), when Iran would join with an alliance of nations from throughout the middle-east, as well as Turkey and Russia, (or Muslim controlled parts thereof). 

Iran has been and continues to build alliances with the nations of the middle-east.  Turkey and Syria have both been very friendly with Iran in recent years, and now Iran is rebuilding relations with the Egyptians. 

From the news articles:

The accord reached between Saudi King Abdullah and the Bahraini monarch Hamas bin Isa Al Khalifa for the oil island's virtual annexation by Riyadh has so incensed Tehran that armed Iranian-Saudi clashes with the potential for all-out warfare may soon become unavoidable, debkafile's Iranian and Gulf sources estimate. Shiite-ruled Iraq would back Tehran in the first Shiite-Sunni collision to be sparked by the wave of unrest sweeping the Arab world - in contrast to the domestic discord raging in Libya and Yemen.

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It is no secret that since the emergence of Iraq as a Shiite state after the invasion of the United States, there has been a major battle between Iran and Saudi Arabia for a new balance of power in the Middle East. In its simplest form this is a battle between Sunni and Shiite forces in Iraq. The more complicated version is a proxy war in Lebanon, where Saudi Arabia supports Sunni groups loyal to the Hariri family and Tehran sides with Hezbollah. Since the Arab Spring began with the toppling of authoritarian governments in Tunisia and Egypt, a third front has emerged, where the battle between Iran and Saudi Arabia is gaining the complex dimension of a “proxy” struggle: Bahrain.

Iran squares off against Saudi Arabia over Bahrain's annexation

http://www.debka.com/article/20817/

Proxy war in the Middle East

http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist-240126-proxy-war-in-the-middle-east.html