once more amenable to Saudi influence. Score two rounds for Iran. The third body blow to the Saudis came in Egypt. An already nervous Saudi Arabia grew apoplectic when Eyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was toppled by street protests in 2011 while the us a longtime supporter of Mubarak, stood by. Was this how the US treated valued allies? To make maters worse, the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist Islamist group with tentacles inside Saudi Arabia. won power in Egypt's first free election demonstrating to Riyadh that conservative slam could prevail at the ballot box in 2013. of course,Egypt reverted to military rule under General Abdul Fattah al Sisi, which was far more compatible with the Saudis, who have since assumed the burden of bankrolling his regime. But the U.S. role in Mubarak's fall continues to sting among the al Saud rulers