Why Saudi Arabia and Iran are bitter rivals - BBC News.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are at loggerheads. The manifestation of the tension between the two nations was on show when Saudi Arabia's execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was followed by the.
Sectarian conflict is becoming entrenched in a growing number of Muslim countries and is threatening to fracture Iraq and Syria. Tensions between Sunnis and Shias, exploited by regional rivals.
However, the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia blame Iran for the discord in the Arab world and instability in the region despite the success of the Iran nuclear negotiations in alleviating international concerns of Iran’s potential pathways to nuclear weapons. But from the Iranian point of view, the real reasons behind flailing Arab unity and the crises in the region have little to do with Iran.
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Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. Ghattas weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to show how the 1979 Iranian revolution-- fueled by American policy-- fed intolerance, suppressed cultural expression, and encouraged sectarian violence from Egypt to Pakistan, leading to the assassination of.
Sometimes it can be to easy to discount Saudi Arabia as reactionary, corrupt, and incompetent, but the fact remains that the Al Saud family have ruled the Arabian peninsula for almost a century, something no other family or country has achieved. They know how to crush their enemies, whether its Nasser's Pan-Arab movement, or Communists, or Muslim Brothers. Al Saud has crushed all rivals.