ASHOOR said:
It is escalating by the hour between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Could this lead to the big 'Shiite vs. Sunni' war that some have predicted?
ASHOOR
No, the Pahlavis (Iran's monarchy) were shia and Saudi had a good relationship with him.
It's a:
1) Monarchy vs Democracy - Saudi is scared that people will overthrow the AlSauds which is why they maintained a hostile relationship with Iran and made it an "enemy" to all Saudis. So, that the saudi population would view Iran as something bad and they would not want to take any values from it (from little things to major things such as, overthrowing the monarchy)
2) Sunni vs Shia - After the hostility started, they started pinpointing out differences between Iran and Saudi and one major difference was the religious affiliation so people became blinded that it's a religious war.
3) Control of holy sites for instance, Mecca, Medina and Karbala (for shias) - Both are fighting over who wants to be the spokesman of all muslims. Saudi already does that and does not bother taking permission from any other countries about the affairs e.g: the Coalition they announced against terrorism was
NOT agreed upon or, actually not even discussed with the countries.
4) Control of the Middle East - Iran wants to actually control the whole of the middle east hence one can see how it took over Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain and Yemen slyly.
- Iran seized control of Iraq ever since Saddam was toppled
- Hezbollah in Lebanon since 1970s with the Israeli conflict
- Syria ever since 2011 (Initially, Syria was an actual revolution against a man who inherited the position from his father. Then Iran and Saudi decided to rage their war on anything but their grounds as per usual. So, Iran decided to take the Alawite side and Saudi took the side of the revolution assuming people who revolted would primarily be Sunnis since Syria is mainly Sunni).
- Bahrain since the 90's (Iran constantly sends Iranians to get the Bahraini citizenship and then sends their military equipment for them. Lol, then you hear about how the Iranians protested against the Bahraini government infront of the Bahraini embassy in Iran which leads to Bahrain randomly kicking out the Iranian ambassador from Bahrain because it's "upset" - Whackos!)
- Yemen (It was initially a revolution against Ali Saleh then Ali Saleh gets his face burnt so he goes to Saudi for medication. Iran then sees that SA is kind to Ali Saleh so, it decides to fund Houthis who revolted to bring Ali Saleh back. Then Ali Saleh gets better and ditches Saudi for houthis and Iran. Houthis then enter Saudi via Oman and UAE (they both border the Saudi Shia hotspot) they then cause problems for Saudi which lead to Saudis causing a war on them in Yemen.
ALL yemenis are against Ali Saleh and initially wanted a gulf intervention to remove him and his supporters, however, now they realised they brought the religious war so they want both Houthis and Gulf out.
On the other hand, Saudi doesn't give two f*cks about the middle east as long as it still has Saudi to itself (which is the biggest country in the Middle East) and they would do their best to keep it this way.
