- The United States is making great efforts to preserve the monarchy in Bahrain, because Bahrain is the headquarters of its Fifth Naval Fleet.

- Saudi Arabia, which is trying every attempt to suppress the Bahraini revolution because of it’s fear of the Shiites coming to power in the country and becoming a regional power in the face of Riyadh, as well as preventing the extension of the Bahraini popular uprising to Saudi territory, and thus the Shiite union in the region.