US cover Saudi regime’s crimes to keep dollar’s oil market dominance: Analyst

The United States is covering up crimes committed by the Saudi regime because Aal-e Saud is keeping the US dollar as the vehicle currency for oil trading in the world, an analyst says.

In an interview with Press TV, Mark Dankof highlighted a decades-old agreement between the US and oil-rich Saudi Arabia for Riyadh to utilize the dollar for international oil transactions.

“This guarantees American support for the present regime in Saudi Arabia no matter how reprehensible their policies are domestically or internationally,” Dankof said, adding that oil trade in the US dollar has “guaranteed a symbiotic relationship” between Washington and Riyadh.

“Ironically enough,” said the analyst, “[The US-Saudi agreement also] guaranteed that there would be a non-spoken symbiotic relationship between the Saudi regime and the Zionist regime in Tel Aviv.”

He added that the US support for the Saudi regime “will continue at all costs.”

Dankof said Amnesty International’s report on Saudi Arabia’s human rights record makes clear the “ruthless, repressive, [and] criminal” nature of the House of Saud.

Protests against the Aal-e Saud family in the country have intensified since November 2011, when security forces opened fire on protesters in Qatif in Eastern Province, killing five people and leaving scores injured.

Activists say there are over 30,000 political prisoners in Saudi Arabia.