Asia. Are wildfires the end of the Californian dream? Saudi Arabia has asked international experts to join its investigation, which indicates the attacks did not come from Yemen, the Saudi foreign ministry said. The attackers massacred thousands and plundered the tomb of Husayn ibn Ali, one of the most important figures in Shiite Islam. Video, Former pro-surfer survives close call with shark, One man's battle against 'toxic invader' Video, Secret erotic drawings worth £2m kept under bed. Local budgets are facing a wave of austerity that could be avoided with low-interest lending by the Fed, a new report suggests. By now, the crown prince has been sobered somewhat by the realisation that his swagger has delivered nothing on the regional front except a devastating war in Yemen and a useless embargo on Qatar. Saudi Arabia to the southwest and south as well as The strategic rivalry is heating up because Iran is in many ways winning the regional struggle. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. But the relationship between Tehran and Riyadh was also transformed. the Persian Gulf. the northwest, the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf All of Saudi Arabia’s faults and excesses seem to be excused as long as the Trump administration is focused on pressuring Iran. In the Iranian camp is Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, a member of a heterodox Shia sect, who has relied on pro-Iranian Shia militia groups, including the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, to fight predominantly Sunni rebel groups. Iran’s clerical rulers openly support the Houthis, who are fighting a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, but Tehran denies that it actively supports the Yemeni group with military and financial support. But Saudi Arabia now finds itself with a conundrum. He later returned to Lebanon and put the resignation on hold. on the southeastern end of the Arabian Peninsula and But Saudi Arabia both thrives off this state of affairs and feeds it. Lebanon in crosshairs as Saudi-Iran tensions soar, Are wildfires the end of the Californian dream? and west, Saudi Arabia to the south and the Persian Click on the map for an enlarged view. The map below, created by French cartographer Emmanuel Pène … In a video animation released in December 2017 the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, oversees an invasion of Iran after Iranian boats attack a Saudi humanitarian ship. Hours later, Iranian protestors set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran. Broadly speaking the strategic map of the Middle East reflects the Shia-Sunni divide. This is why, within a month of the attack on the Saudi Aramco oil processing facilities, the Saudis were exploring indirect talks with Iran, with the help of Iraq and Pakistan, to try to reduce tensions. Joining is simple and doesn’t need to cost a lot: You can become a sustaining member for as little as $3 or $5 a month. to further destabilize the Middle East and jeopardize Syrian peace talks between the regional archrivals. north, Syria to the northwest, Jordan to the west, Fast-forward to 2011 and uprisings across the Arab world caused political instability throughout the region. Video. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. This removed a crucial military counter-weight to Iran. Indians and Central Asians Are the New Face of the Islamic State, QAnon’s Creator Made the Ultimate Conspiracy Theory, Macron Wants to Start an Islamic Revolution. Nimr’s execution can be partly explained by the Saudis’ desperation to stamp out any sign of independent thinking among the country’s Shiites. What began as a civil war during the Arab Spring has morphed into a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, with Iran supplying financial and … The United States, a strong ally of Saudi Arabia, quit the Iran nuclear pact in 2018, with President Donald Trump calling it the "worst deal ever." southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. .css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}Saudi Arabia and Iran are at loggerheads. In the pro-Saudi camp are the other major Sunni actors in the Gulf - the UAE and Bahrain - as well as Egypt and Jordan. The kind of reporting we do is essential to democracy, but it is not easy, cheap, or profitable. In the past 15 years in particular, the differences between Saudi Arabia and Iran have been sharpened by a series of events. • Kim Ghattas is a senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Black Wave, Available for everyone, funded by readers, Leader of Quds force was killed by US in drone strike in Iraq on 3 January, Tehran says Iranian citizen who passed on information was in jail at the time of the general’s assassination, Loss of revered Quds Force commander and his aides has derailed country’s momentum in region, Canada, Ukraine, Britain and others ask for box to be sent to third country for examination. After the killing of Suleimani, the Saudi calls for de-escalation fit the same pattern. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Click on the map for an enlarged view. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read ), This Map Explains the Saudi-Iran Proxy War. The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq overthrew Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Arab who had been a major Iranian adversary. Macron said France was willing to help international investigators, it added. Jon Schwarz[email protected]​theintercept.com@Schwarz.

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