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Link-US backing the Shiite revolts in Bahrain will collapse Saudi- Iranian relations; Saudi Arabia will aggressively protect the Bahraini regime
Ghazal 11(“Underneath Bahrain's struggle for democracy lie long-running sectarian tensions, exacerbated by a fearful Saudi Arabia”, Feb 23 2011, Amal Ghazal, Assistant professor of Middle Eastern History- Dalhousie University, http://www.themarknews.com/articles/4185-saudi-interests-stand-in-the-way-of-bahrain-s-democracy)
Saudi Arabia looks ...and... scapegoated Mubarak too quickly).
Relations decline over the Arab Spring will drive the Saudis to proliferate
Guzansky July 1st, 2011 (Yoel Guzansky is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. He joined INSS after serving at Israel's National Security Council; "TEHRAN TESTS SAUDIS' NERVE ON NUKES", LEXIS, SRM)
UNTIL recently it ...and... cost of more than $US300 billion.
Saudi prolif leads to fast regional prolif
Center for Contemporary Conflict 2004 (“Conference on WMD Proliferation in the Middle East: Directions and Policy Options in the New Century” http://www.ciaonet.org/olj/si/si_3_8/si_3_8_ruj01.pdf)
James Russell from the ...and... ensure U.S. engagement?
Rapid prolif causes pre-emptive nuclear war.
Heurlin 2005 (Jean Monnet Professor of European Security and Integration at the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen, and Sten Rynning, "Missile defence", p 162-3)
Arms control and non-proliferation ...and... to the cost-enhancing MD project.