Riyadh and Tehran on a collision course

SHARP escalation of tension between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran has raised fears that these two neighbors and rivals, already engaged in a cold war, are now on a collision course.

 

Back in the 1960s and ’70s, Saudi Arabia and the Shah’s Iran were closely aligned against radical Arab nationalists led by Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser and the pan-Arab Ba’ath party ensconced in Syria and Iraq. Indeed, the Nixon doctrine emphasized their importance as twin pillars of regional stability in the Persian Gulf.

 

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