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John Kiriakou's account of Saudi Arabia's role in Egypt — not merely supporting the government that displaced the Muslim Brotherhood but bankrolling it and ensuring its survival — which he places within a history of Saudi interference in Egyptian internal affairs reaching back to the nationalist revolution of 1958.
Saudi influence in Egypt is, in John Kiriakou’s description, both financial and old.[1]
Bankrolling, not supporting
Asked about Egypt after the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood government, Kiriakou agrees that the Saudis back its successor and then sharpens the verb: they are not just supporting that government but bankrolling it and ensuring its survival. The automatic transcript renders the government’s name as “the CC government”; Kiriakou is speaking of the administration that followed the Brotherhood’s removal.[1]
The longer history
He declines to treat this as a response to the Arab Spring. Saudi Arabia, he says, has a very long history of meddling in Egyptian internal affairs going back to 1958 and to the nationalist revolution in Egypt that year.[1]
What it means for an uprising
The consequence he draws is the one that governs his wider pessimism about change in the region: anybody participating in a popular uprising is going to have to fight against Saudi money and Saudi weapons, which is why he expects the process to take decades.[2]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
